Welcome to a fantasy shop that travels the world offering antique trinkets that can fulfill lost dreams and special phones to connect with loved ones in the afterlife. However, upon arriving in the small town of Boonah, the old fantasy merchant Earlatidge Hubert Umbrey discovers that he is dying and that he must find his successor as quickly as possible, because even in the small town of Boonah there are many who could benefit from his magic. For example, Enoch – a ten-year-old boy who mourns his father and guiltily hides a secret. Or Ann, who has come to town to see her dying grandmother, and yet she thinks with regret of one man above all. But even for Mr. Earlatidge himself, during his last days on earth, the shop prepares a store in a form he has never known before – and thus he is able to face his destiny. Don’t miss this captivating magical novel about a fantastic shop that brings comfort, peace and hope to those in need.
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Sometimes you get a book in your hands, and right from the first lines you say: This is the story I want to be in. It envelops you in the beauty of the text, familiarity, as if you were telling it yourself, as if you were experiencing it. This is a shop with imagination. Sentences that flow through you as naturally as the air you breathe. The book will involve you with excellently written characters, the magic of unrepeatability. You will be delighted to discover the second novel by Australian author Tabitha Bird. “A man who seeks the impossible will find it. The one who doesn’t never can,” reads one of the ideas of the book.
While reading The Shop with Fantasy, you will be moved, maybe sad, but at the same time you will feel the joy of the fact that everything can end well, one way or another. A storm of emotions will literally take place in you, you will want to visit the shop and then you will realize that you have it in your hand. The Shop with Fantasy is an exceptional book for many pleasant reasons. You will be rewarded when you allow yourself to be permeated by it. Many thanks to translator Markéta Polochová for how brilliantly and with maximum sensitivity she processed the text.
Rating: 90%
Tabitha Bird
A shop with fantasy
Publisher: Argo, 2023 • Translation: Markéta Polochová • Number of pages: 360