The Book of Beginnings

From the author of the phenomenal bestseller The Keeper of Stories, comes an utterly beautiful and charming novel full of mystery and secrets waiting to be uncovered ... Her new chapter starts now ... Jo Sorsby is hiding from her past when she agrees to run her uncle's beloved stationery shop. Glimpsing the lives of her customers between the warm wooden shelves, as they scribble little notes and browse colorful notebooks, distracts her from her bruised heart. When she meets Ruth, a vicar running from a secret, and Malcolm, a septuagenarian still finding himself, she suddenly realizes she isn't alone. They each have a story that can transform Jo's life ... if only she can let them in. The perfect gift for book lovers everywhere, The Keeper of Stories meets The Lost Bookshop in this gorgeous novel about secrets, second chances, and finding friendship in the most unlikely places.

Sally Page is the author of The Keeper of Stories, which has sold over 650,000 copies in English. After studying history at university, Sally moved to London to work in advertising. In her spare time, she studied floristry, eventually opening her own flower shop. Her floristry experience offered a unique window into people's lives, and she began to photograph and write in a series of nonfiction books about how flowers mark life's most important moments. She also founded a fountain pen company, Plooms.co.uk.