Bookstore Girls

Can two very different women put aside their differences to save the bookstore they love? The Japanese bestseller that spawned a seven-book series - adapted for TV and 200,000 copies sold Riko Nishioka is deputy manager of the Pegasus Shobo Kichijoji bookstore. After five years working part-time she''s finally secured a full-time position at the age of forty. But now she has a nemesis. Aki Kobata, twenty-seven, has waltzed in as a full-time employee thanks to her family connections. A free spirit with a rebellious streak and a silver spoon in her mouth, she''s anything but a team player. The two are constantly clashing - both at work and over their personal lives. But when Riko is given notice the store will be closing in six month''s time, they face a stark choice. Can they put their petty enmities aside to boost sales and save their livelihoods or will they go down fighting . . . each other?

Product details

• Authors: Kei Aono
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 04.09.2025
• EAN: 9781529446333
• ISBN: 978-1-5294-4633-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / City Life, Fiction in translation, FICTION / World Literature / Japan, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary