About the Book: Receipts From the Bookshop: A Booksellers Year
Many of us dream of owning a bookshop but for Katie Clapham it happened by
accident, when she moved back to the seaside town she grew up in and went into
business with her mum.
Once a week, Katie sits behind the counter and chronicles the days comings and
goings-mostly people who were actually hoping to catch her mother. The triumphs
here are small but hard-won: a tea crisis averted, a book title correctly
identified from a cryptic clutch of clues. Not to mention the emotional
rollercoaster of being named the 7th Best Bookshop in