How to Find Love in a Book Shop by Veronica Henry

Author:Veronica Henry [Henry, Veronica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Chick lit
Publisher: Orion Publishing Group
Published: 2016-06-15T22:00:00+00:00

Eleven

After a busy week, Emilia was looking forward to her first rehearsal that Sunday with the Peasebrook Quartet, although she was nervous too. It had taken hours of practice for her to get just one piece of music fit for human consumption. She knew she would have to get up to speed on dozens of new pieces, and she was terrible at sight-reading: it had always been her weakness. No doubt she would know some of the music, but there would be plenty that was new to her, and she was terrified of letting the side down.

Marlowe had been round earlier in the week, to drop off some sheet music. She had been surprised at how pleased she was to see him – there was something reassuring about his presence. He hadn’t stopped, though. He’d been in a hurry to get somewhere else.

‘Work your way through this lot. Practise as much as you can. We can iron out everything at the rehearsal, so don’t get into a panic. We’ve got loads of time.’

Emilia tried to be reassured, and went through as much of the music as she could in the evenings. She was pleased no one could hear her as she stumbled through, and when Sunday came she wasn’t sure if she’d done the right thing, agreeing. She wasn’t nearly as confident in her ability as Marlowe seemed to be.

They were rehearsing in the old church hall at the back of St Nick’s. She walked down with Julius’s cello on her back, not sure whether she was relieved to have something completely different from the book shop to focus her energy on, or whether she should be catching up on all the things she didn’t get a chance to do when the shop was open. Dave had jumped at the chance to man the shop on Sundays for the interim: she’d left him in sole charge, with instructions to phone if it got too hectic.

They’d been really busy. Autumn seemed to bring with it a hunkering down feeling that drew people back to reading, and the town was filled with people indulging in a weekend break in the countryside. With its Cotswold charm and inviting inns and welcoming shops, Peasebrook wore the colder months well and had become quite a hotspot and Emilia and her team were working hard to raise the shop’s profile. Dave had started them a Facebook page and a Twitter account; she’d been talking to several reps about supplementary merchandise; June was starting a monthly book club sponsored by the local wine merchants: for ten pounds you would get a copy of whichever paperback was going to be discussed over two glasses of specially chosen wine.

Of course, the main issue was cash flow. Andrea was still uncovering the extent of the shop’s debts, they were waiting for probate, and in the meantime, the bills and the staff still needed to be paid. There was no shortage of ideas for making Nightingale Books the best book shop in the world, but to do that Emilia needed money.

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