When a woman inherits her estranged mother's bookstore in London's
Primrose Hill, she finds herself thrust into the pages of a new
story--hers--filled with long-held family secrets, the possibility of
new love, and, perhaps, the single greatest challenge of her life.
When Valentina Baker was only eleven years old, her mother, Eloise,
unexpectedly fled to her native London, leaving Val and her father on
their own in California. Now a librarian in her thirties, fresh out of a
failed marriage and still at odds with her mother's abandonment, Val
feels disenchanted with her life.
In a bittersweet twist of fate, she receives word that Eloise has died,
leaving Val the deed to her mother's Primrose Hill apartment and the
Book Garden, the storied bookshop she opened almost two decades prior.
Though the news is devastating, Val jumps at the chance for a new
beginning and jets across the Atlantic, hoping to learn who her mother
truly was while mourning the relationship they never had.
As Val begins to piece together Eloise's life in the U.K., she finds
herself falling in love with the pastel-colored third-floor flat and the
cozy, treasure-filled bookshop, soon realizing that her mother's life
was much more complicated than she ever imagined. When Val stumbles
across a series of intriguing notes left in a beloved old novel, she
sets out to locate the book's mysterious former owner, though her
efforts are challenged from the start, as is the Book Garden's future.
In order to save the store from financial ruin and preserve her mother's
legacy, she must rally its eccentric staff and journey deep into her
mother's secrets. With Love from London is a story about healing and
loss, revealing the emotional, relatable truths about love, family, and
forgiveness.
