But now, after years of being belittled, Michelle finally finds the courage and will to break free.
Michelle misreads Harvey’s control as caring, and they marry. And her mother, while she is horrified at Michelle’s disgrace, fixes her up with Harvey, her father’s new manager. Her father puts her to work in his car dealership, and soon she is his top salesperson. Her parents attempt to guide her in different ways. For a while she mutely hibernates at home, not knowing what to do.
But when secrets from Michelle’s own childhood come back to haunt her, and disaster threatens Anna’s home, will the wisdom and charm of the stories in the bookshop help the two friends – and those they love – find their own happy ever afters?Īfter getting expelled from school, Michelle Nightingale finds her career and life goals are harshly destroyed, leaving her floundering and depressed. But, as the stories of love, adventure, secret gardens, lost dogs, wicked witches and giant peaches breathe new life into the neglected shop, Anna and her customers get swept up in the magic too.Įven Anna’s best friend Michelle – who categorically doesn’t believe in true love and handsome princes – isn’t immune. Unpacking boxes filled with childhood classics, Anna can’t shake the feeling that maybe her own fairytale ending isn’t all that she’d hoped for. The customers, and even Michelle, are falling under the spell of the magical stories of romance, adventure, and lost dogs. And not just because it gets her away from her three rowdy stepchildren and their hyperactive Dalmatian… Although she’s been thinking that her own fairytale ending hasn’t really turned out the way she hoped, Anna’s passion for the classics is transforming the shop. When story-lover Anna takes over Longhampton’s bookshop, it’s her dream come true. And when she decides to take over a neglected book shop, she knows the perfect manager. She’s a hard-headed businesswoman, making a fresh start in a new town. The storyline includes the usual Lucy Dillon content with the dogs but the book also flows mainly around the topic of reading and books which for main character Anna is a dream come true. Michelle is very career driven and decides to take on the shop next door to her own shop, but she has to keep the shop as a book shop for a year at least and who better than to take control of the shop than her friend Anna whose passion in life is working with books. Both are facing obstacles in their lives which they need the help of others to help them get around. In The Secret of Happy Ever After we follow the lives of friends Anna and Michelle.
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