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Guaranteed to capture the hearts of everyone who truly is in love with books, The Bookman's Story is a past bookseller's sparkling novel and a delightful exploration of 1 of literature's most tantalizing mysteries with echoes of Shadow of the Blowing wind and A.S. Byatt's Ownership. Hay-on-Wye, 1995. Peter Byerly isn't sure what drew him into this particular bookshop. Nine calendar months earlier, the death of his much loved wife, Amanda, experienced kept him shattered. The young antiquarian bookseller relocated from NEW YORK to the English countryside, expecting to rediscover the joy he once took in collecting and repairing rare books. But upon opening an 18th-century study of Shakespeare forgeries, Peter is stunned when a portrait of Amanda tumbles out of its internet pages. Of course, it isn't really her. The watercolor is clearly Victorian. The resemblance is uncanny, and Peter becomes obsessed with learning the picture's roots. As he comes after the trail back again first to the Victorian age and then to Shakespeare's time, Peter communes with Amanda's nature, learns the reality about his own history, and discovers a book that might definitively establish Shakespeare was, indeed, the writer of most his plays.
