December Fiction
Nov 16, 2021
2 minutes
The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan
Sphere, £14.99
in short supply this Christmas, it won’t be the kind of festive romantic fiction designed to be a winter warmer for its primarily female readership. By my perhaps conservative reckoning, there are approximately 50—where, once again, Jenny Colgan manages the neat trick of staying utterly faithful to the conventions of the genre, while also smuggling in some sharp comedy and keen social observation.
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