The Paris Bookshop Secret

When Alexis starts caring for Maeve - a reclusive lady in her nineties - they feel an unexpected and beautiful kinship. Alexis is embracing nomad life after burning out as a big-shot editor. And Maeve is mourning the wildness of her youth as a lauded author.

Their friendship inspires Maeve to write again. Her last novel pours out of her - a story of love and heartbreak, centred around a bookshop in 1950s Paris.

But the line between fact and fiction is as fine as a whisper, and the novel unfurls a long-buried mystery, one that has haunted Maeve''s existence.

And will reverberate into the lives of both women, decades later...<>

About the author

Iris Costello is the pseudonym of bestselling author, Nuala Ellwood. She has a BA Hons degree in Sociology from Durham University and a Master's in Creative Writing from York St John University where she is a visiting lecturer. She is the author of seven highly acclaimed novels, the most recent of which was The Secrets of Rochester Place. The Story Collector is her eighth book.

Product details

• Authors: Iris Costello
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 31.07.2025
• EAN: 9781405974615
• ISBN: 978-1-4059-7461-5
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, Historical romance, FICTION / Romance / Historical / General, FICTION / Historical / General, Historical mysteries, Historical fiction, Spain, Yorkshire, c 1930 to c 1939, Historical crime and mysteries, c 2020 to c 2029