The Little Village of Book Lovers

If you loved Nina George’s The Little Paris Bookshop, as I did, you’ll remember Jean Perdu created his floating bookstore, Literary Apothecary, after reading a life-changing novel about love, written under a pseudonym. George’s new novel, The Little Village of Book Lovers, is that novel, which George says she wrote after many readers asked about that fictitious novel. It’s about all the different kinds of love—romantic, platonic, familial—and one young girl with the gift to see where Love itself touched each person, a mark that only she can see on their lips, shoulder, or perhaps hands. While Love laments that it doesn’t actually control love, because its siblings (such as Fate, Fear, Chance, Death, and Logic), each have their own influences on people, orphaned Marie-Jeanne spends her life using books to bring together people she believes are destined to love each other. The Little Village of Book Lovers will leave you dreaming of a trip to France to find the perfect book and, perhaps, love.