Bookspry

[US + UK] Gemma Whitfield had a plan. A good job, a decent flat, a five-year timeline that made perfect sense on paper.

Then her company folded, her landlord sold up, and she found herself standing in the rain outside a slightly crooked Georgian townhouse in Highbury with a cardboard box and absolutely no idea what came next.

27 Hartley Street comes with a leaking skylight, a meddling landlady called Dotty, and a bookshop cat named Mr. Antony who has very strong opinions about everyone. It...
Show More

[US + UK] Gemma Whitfield had a plan. A good job, a decent flat, a five-year timeline that made perfect sense on paper.

Then her company folded, her landlord sold up, and she found herself standing in the rain outside a slightly crooked Georgian townhouse in Highbury with a cardboard box and absolutely no idea what came next.

27 Hartley Street comes with a leaking skylight, a meddling landlady called Dotty, and a bookshop cat named Mr. Antony who has very strong opinions about everyone. It also comes with Leo Keating — Dotty's grandson, the building's reluctant project manager, and the most irritating man Gemma has ever met. He's organised. He's opinionated. He keeps a colour-coded spreadsheet for the building's maintenance schedule.

He's also, annoyingly, the only person who seems to notice when she's not okay.

As autumn turns to winter and the building's future comes under threat, Gemma discovers that the life she thought was temporary might be the one she was always meant to have — if she can stop running long enough to choose it.

A laugh-out-loud British romantic comedy set in London about bookshops, belonging, and the terrifying possibility that home might be a person, not a place.

The Hartley Street Series, Book One. Sweet/clean romance. Can be read as a standalone.
Show Less