A wonderful heart wrenching read the characters their stories drew me right in..A special book highly recommend.#netgalley #putnambooks

The book started out pretty good, introducing us to Tom, a farmer in Australia, with an unhappy wife, Trudy, who loves the city and young son, who is not Tom’s. Trudy leaves Tom for what she thinks is a better life, but she ends up in one of those Jesus camps with some nutty people and an even crazier Pastor (The Sacrament or Jonestown Massacre), but she leaves the son. Tom is very heartbroken that she life, but life with the son gets better until Trudy returns to take him too. Tom is a broken soul, but he begins to help Hannah, a survivor of Auschwitz, open her “The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted.” After first Tom thinks she is crazy for opening a bookshop and there are times she acts a little mad, but as time goes on Tom and Hannah find love and the young son of his first wife returns to him. It’s a love story, but I will admit, I expected it to be more. It was OK.

Great read, I would highly recommend it. Poignant story if the power of love. Characters were believable. The authors writing style drew you in right away.

This story is about Tom who lives in Australia in the 1960's and meets a woman named Hannah who survived Auschwitz. There are many books that tell about the horrors of World War II but this book tells about Hannah's life after and her heartbreak. Will Tom and Hannah's heartbreak end?

I really enjoyed this book. The characters are wonderful and well developed. Their individual life experiences are very heart rending at times. I highly recommend this book. Thank you NetGalley for the ARC.

I loved this book. The characters jumped right off the pages. I will be recommending this book to my patrons!

Thank you to Net Galley and Penguin Group for an advance read of this title in exchange for my honest review. Some books have amazing prose, some have a spellbinding plot. Rarely do they accomplish both. This book does just that. I was drawn into the story from the first page and found the characters so well developed. I cared about what happened to them. I highly recommend this book.