This was such a fun book to read — San Francisco, a book shop, hidden treasures and the requisite hunky, intelligent, warm “hammer for hire” who is both emotionally available and comes complete with adorable child. I knew it would be good when she threw in a well-justified “take this job and shove it” moment. Plenty of literary references, a great set of characters I would love to know, and easy to read. Susan Wiggs is on my list of goto authors who will always lift my mood.

Natalie is stuck at a job that gives her nothing but a paycheck and in a relationship with a boyfriend she’d like to leave, when suddenly tragedy strikes and her life turns upside down. She moves back to San Francisco to help her grandfather run her mother’s beloved store, The Lost & Found Bookshop. Her grandfather has dementia, the bookshop is failing, but these adversity’s help her find her way back to happiness, buoyed by the new and old people that come into her life.
An interesting storyline, filled with genuine characters you’d like to know, this is quintessential Susan Wiggs, who writes about human life with great insight, kindness and wisdom.