ON THE BOOK TRAIN TO PARIS
Headline, 2025
Romance, 288pages
For three women in an Edinburgh bookshop, could the book train to Paris be a passport to Joie de vivre?
Carly longs to make-over the family's bookshop, but her father is resisting change.
Upstairs, Fran is stumped by her next novel - and with how to fix her marriage.
In the flat below, Elsa cares for her husband, in need of a short breather to gather her strength.
So when a customer drops in and asks for help at his book festival on a train to Paris, it's the chance of a petit escape. And when a book mysteriously appears in the shop that Fran inscribed to a lover in Paris years ago, it seems too serendipitous to ignore. Boarding the train with Carly and Elsa, Fran wonders if revisiting her past will help her move forward.
But there are plot twists ahead. Could Paris be the place to turn a new page?
Norie Clarke
THE LIBRARY OF LOST LOVE
Headline, eBook 2023/PB 2024
Romance, 352 pages
'The warmest, most completely charming story to sink into' - JENNY COLGAN
'A wonderful tale proving change is always possible' - KATIE FFORDE
'A glorious story of an unlikely friendship that heals heartache' - EMMA COWELL
'One of the sweetest love stories I've ever read' - SUE MOORCROFT
JOAN THINKS HER STORY IS OVER.
BUT WHAT IF THERE IS ONE MORE CHAPTER...?
Joan has spent too long alone with her memories of the man she walked away from one Manhattan evening years ago. In need of company, she advertises for a lodger.
Jess knows it's time to move on from her best friend's couch, where she's been crashing since her boyfriend emptied out her heart, and all her savings. But when she responds to an advert for a lodger in a quiet Notting Hill street, Jess has no idea how life's about to change.
When Jess meets Joan, she recognises someone needing a way back into the world, and she suggests a switch: if Joan will agree to go on-line, she will go off-line. And when Jess discovers Joan's library of lost love, she decides to follow the trail, little realising that in Joan's story lies her own unexpected new beginning...
Agent: Juliet Pickering
Assisant: Finlay Charlesworth
Norie Clarke lives in a beautiful village by the sea with her husband, son and dogs. When not writing, Norie can be found in her studio at the bottom of her garden playing the piano and trying, not very well, to draw.
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