Midnight at the Bright Ideas bookstore
Sullivan, Matthew, 1970-2018
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Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight. A clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, she keeps a meticulously crafted existence among her beloved books, eccentric colleagues and the BookFrogs - the lost and lonely regulars who spend every day marauding the store's overwhelmed shelves. But when Joey McGinty, a young, beguiling BookFrog, kills himself in the bookstore's back room, Lydia's life comes unglued. Always Joey's favourite bookseller, Lydia has been bequeathed his meager worldly possessions. Trinkets and books; the detritus of a lonely, uncared for man. But when Lydia flips through his books she finds them defaced in ways both disturbing and inexplicable. They reveal the psyche of a young man on the verge of an emotional reckoning. And they seem to contain a hidden message. What did Joey know? And what does it have to do with Lydia?
Main title:
Midnight at the Bright Ideas bookstore / Matthew Sullivan.
Author:
Sullivan, Matthew, 1970-, author
Imprint:
London : Windmill Books, 2018.
Collation:
328 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Scribner, 2017.
ISBN:
9781786090485 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6FICTION
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2641072