The Village Green Bookshop - Rachael Lucas

A good book can help you escape for a few blissful hours… but a bookshop can be the place to start a whole new life.

Frustrated that she spends all her time as either a mum to a football-obsessed teenager or a wife to a workaholic husband, Hannah wants something for herself. When the chance comes to take over the Post Office in Little Maudley, a charming Cotswold village, Hannah grabs it with both hands.

But village life is not so picture-perfect after all, and Hannah finds herself an outsider in this tight-knit community. Even her idea to introduce a small bookshop to the Post Office causes a stir. At least her son Ben seems to have found his place as he joins the local football team, coached by ex-professional Jake Lovatt. But then a shocking secret from their past threatens to uproot the new life they’ve made for themselves, with drastic consequences…

Set in the same village as The Telephone Box Library and featuring some of the same much-loved characters, this is a charming, big-hearted novel from bestselling author Rachael Lucas.