“ Nina had been told regularly since she was a child that she needed more fresh air, at which she would take her book and clamber up the apple tree at the bottom of their tatty garden, away from the car… Jenny Colgan
“ Christmas, as a practicing Catholic child, was seen as a reward for lots and lots and lots of church. Jenny Colgan
“ I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony. Jenny Colgan
“ This is what you British do not understand about the French. You think you must work, work, work, work and open on Sundays and make mothers and fathers with families slave in supermarkets at three o'c… Jenny Colgan
“ All the real blokes I know are obsessed with cars and have started doing cycling at the weekend and being really, really boring about it and banging on about their Fitbits and growing stupid beards an… Jenny Colgan
“ There was a universe inside every human being every bit as big as the universe outside them. Books were the best way Nina knew - apart from, sometimes, music - to breach the barrier; to connect the in… Jenny Colgan
“ Anything that spreads books and brings about more books, I would say it is good. Good medicine, not bad. Jenny Colgan
“ The look you get when you’re reading in your van, and your feet are up and you sit so still, and your face is alight, and I don’t know where you are; you could be anywhere, so far away, off in a part… Jenny Colgan
“ They were probably reading on their tablets,” said Nina loyally. She loved her e-reader, too. “Yes, I know,” said the man. “But I couldn’t see. I couldn’t see what they were reading or ask them if it… Jenny Colgan
