The Bookman's Tale

ISBN: 0670026476

Author: Lovett, Charlie

Condition: New

d to capture the hearts of everyone who truly loves books, The Bookmans Tale is a former booksellers sparkling novel and a delightful exploration of one of literatures most tantalizing mysteries with echoes of Shadow of the Wind and A.S. Byatt's Possession. Hay-on-Wye, 1995. Peter Byerly isnt sure what drew him into this particular bookshop. Nine months earlier, the death of his beloved wife, Amanda, had left him shattered. The young antiquarian bookseller relocated from North Carolina to the English countryside, hoping to rediscover the joy he once took in collecting and restoring rare books. But upon opening an eighteenth-century study of Shakespeare forgeries, Peter is shocked when a portrait of Amanda tumbles out of its pages. Of course, it isnt really her. The watercolor is clearly Victorian. Yet the resemblance is uncanny, and Peter becomes obsessed with learning the pictures origins. As he follows the trail back first to the Victorian era and then to S

• A mysterious portrait ignites an antiquarian bookseller’s search through time and the works of Shakespeare for his lost love