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The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted by Robert Hillman
05/30/2019 12:01 AM EST •
05/30/2019 12:05 AM EST
This story of love, loss and redemption is set in rural Australia during the late 1960s, and told through three voices. Tom Hope is a sheep farmer who’s been unlucky in love; Hannah Babel is a Jewish woman who survived Auschwitz but lost her husband and child; and Peter Carson is the young son of Tom’s first wife and taken by his mother to live with a religious cult. All three of these characters are broken and damaged but, as the story develops, they find hope for the future.
Sue, Breakwater Books, Guilford