“Humiliated best friend in front of nearest and dearest and destroyed future happiness with man of dreams. Landed dud job with little future prospects at dud firm in a new (thankfully, at least, less dud) city. Made one and a half friends at said dud firm (only seeing a person’s shoes doesn’t count for full friendship). Spilt freshly made latte on innocent bystander three days ago. Felt worse about lost coffee than person. Never have cash to buy The Big Issue magazine. Have zero patience for sister and gave her lacklustre goodbye hug. Don’t call mother enough. Binge-watches true crime like it’s entertainment when really it’s about real people who were murdered! Only had three people attend stupid book club event. Definitely not an innovator. All in all, most likely, a very unlikeable human.”

Sometimes all you need is a light hearted, funny, romantic quick read. This hit the nail on the head. I absolutely devoured this book! I loved all the characters, the plot and the locations.

While you were reading is about a 29 year old woman Beatrix Babbage. After attending her best friends wedding, and letting slip a dark secret about the bride to the groom and ultimately destroying their wedding, she decides to move to Melbourne. Like what any person wants to do when they start over in a new city, Bea goes in search of a new job, new hair and new friends. That doesn’t work out for her like that straight away. What she does find is a second hand book full of little annotations and inscriptions which she becomes obsessed with.

Bea has to know who wrote these! She falls in love with every word and every page and will not rest until she finds the person behind the words. Bea even makes her very own bookstagram to help her do so!

With new best friends, new love interests and plenty of drama along the way. It’s safe to say I loved this book. I found it so relatable to my everyday life (except that Bea inhales coffee and baked goods way too much that it gave me anxiety through reading it!).

If you’re a book lover, a Melbournian, a bookstagrammer, I believe you will find so many relatable situations that you will love. Bea reads books just like us AND quotes Harry Potter non-stop!!

I now have to go find their other book ‘The Book Ninja’ and devour that too!