At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities

Ava Harrison receives a letter with a job listing to care for an old man and his cat in Driftwood, Alabama. She is haunted by the death of her ex-boyfriend and takes the job to start a new life. Maggie Mae Brightwell, the owner of Magpies, is also haunted by the loss of her mother and father. Ava and Maggie find they are kindred spirits and must learn to let go of the past to move on.

Format: Hardback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 18 September 2023
Publisher: St Martin's Press

When Ava Harrison receives a letter containing an unusual job listing one month after the sudden death of her ex-boyfriend, she thinks she's being haunted. The listing - a job as a live-in caretaker for a peculiar old man and his cranky cat in Driftwood, Alabama - is the perfect chance to start a new life. A normal life. Ava has always been too fearful to even travel, so no one is more surprised than she is when she throws caution to the wind and drives to the distant beachside town.

On the surface, Maggie Mae Brightwell is a bundle of energy as she runs Magpies, Driftwood's coffee and curiosity shop, where there's magic to be found in pairing the old with the new. But lurking under her cheerful exterior is a painful truth - keeping busy is the best way to distract herself from the lingering loss of her mama and her worries about her aging father. No one knows better than she does that you can't pour from an empty cup, but holding on to the past is the only thing keeping the hope alive that her mama will return home one day.

Ava and Maggie soon find they're kindred spirits, as they're both haunted - not by spirits, but by regret. Both must learn to let go of the past to move on - because sometimes the waves of change bring you to the place where you most belong.

When Ava Harrison receives a letter containing an unusual job listing one month after the sudden death of her ex-boyfriend, she thinks she's being haunted.

The listing - a job as a live-in caretaker for a peculiar old man and his cranky cat in Driftwood, Alabama - is the perfect chance to start a new life.

Ava has always been too fearful to even travel, so no one is more surprised than she is when she throws caution to the wind and drives to the distant beachside town.

On the surface, Maggie Mae Brightwell is a bundle of energy as she runs Magpies, Driftwood's coffee and curiosity shop, where there's magic to be found in pairing the old with the new.

But lurking under her cheerful exterior is a painful truth - keeping busy is the best way to distract herself from the lingering loss of her mama and her worries about her aging father.

No one knows better than she does that you can't pour from an empty cup, but holding on to the past is the only thing keeping the hope alive that her mama will return home one day.

Ava and Maggie soon find they're kindred spirits, as they're both haunted - not by spirits, but by regret.

Both must learn to let go of the past to move on - because sometimes the waves of change bring you to the place where you most belong.

Weight: 406g
Dimension: 146 x 310 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781250867261