Best Seller
Friends You Haven't Met Yet
Hardcover
$30.00
Available on Mar 23, 2027 | 352 Pages
A London bookstore owner plays matchmaker to her customers in the latest from Clare Pooley, the beloved bestselling author who knows exactly what people want to read right now
Jude spends her days running The First Chapter Bookshop with her loyal hound, Heathcliff, at her side. The finances of owning a bookshop are challenging, but Jude knowsthat only the best people visit stores like hers, and that makes even the difficult days worthwhile.
Jude also believes that you can tell a lot about someone by the books they choose to read. So she curates a display of Books of Possibility, to match up customers who choose the same title—and, she hopes, to offer them the social connection they’re craving. Before long, her books have brought friends and lovers together, healed wounds, and inspired new adventures.
But good taste in books isn’t everything, and Jude soon finds that creating a community may require her to open up about things she’d rather keep hidden. Because Jude’s customers are not always what they seem, and neither is Jude herself.
Jude spends her days running The First Chapter Bookshop with her loyal hound, Heathcliff, at her side. The finances of owning a bookshop are challenging, but Jude knowsthat only the best people visit stores like hers, and that makes even the difficult days worthwhile.
Jude also believes that you can tell a lot about someone by the books they choose to read. So she curates a display of Books of Possibility, to match up customers who choose the same title—and, she hopes, to offer them the social connection they’re craving. Before long, her books have brought friends and lovers together, healed wounds, and inspired new adventures.
But good taste in books isn’t everything, and Jude soon finds that creating a community may require her to open up about things she’d rather keep hidden. Because Jude’s customers are not always what they seem, and neither is Jude herself.
Author
Clare Pooley
Clare Pooley graduated from Cambridge University and then spent twenty years in the heady world of advertising before becoming a full-time writer. Her debut novel, The Authenticity Project, was a New York Times bestseller, and has been translated into twenty-nine languages. She is also the author of Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting and How to Age Disgracefully. Friends You Haven’t Met Yet is her fourth novel. Pooley lives in Fulham, London, with her husband, three children, and two border terriers.
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