HOW A BOOKSELLER INSPIRED A NATION
The diary of a publicist-turned bookseller who left Florence to open a tiny bookshop on a Tuscan hill.
''Like Chocolat meets Penelope Fitzgerald''s The Bookshop, set in the Tuscan hills... A celebration of writing, words and people: delightful''
Mail on Sunday
''A work of significant beauty... Inspiring about the continuing life of books, and about the ways in which our lives can change and our dreams can come true, if only we insist on believing in changes and dreams''
Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours
''Romano, I''d like to open a bookshop where I live.''
''Right. How many people are we talking about?''
''A hundred and eighty.''
''Right, so if a hundred and eighty thousand people live there, then . . .''
''No, not hundred and eighty thousand, Romano. Just a hundred and eighty.''
''Alba . . . Have you lost your mind?''
