After the death of her estranged mother, soon to be divorced Valentina Baker moves to London to take over the bookstore her mother left behind.  In a series of notes left as a scavenger hunt, Valentina gets to know her mother better - and the reader does too, in a dual timeline that lets the reader see exactly why Eloise abandoned young Valentina in the first place.

I was pretty disappointed by this book.  The characters were flat and stereotypical, and the writing fairly juvenile.  It definitely wasn't my taste, but I wouldn't not recommend it to someone looking for women's fiction set in London or about a librarian/bookseller.  

Thank you Ballantine and NetGalley for the ARC!

CW:

infidelity, miscarriage, non-narrative character has lost a spouse and unborn child, death of a parent due to cancer, narrative character has cancer