The Book Swap Tessa Bickers

Posted December 28, 2024 by jrsbookr in Uncategorized / 0 Comments

by Tessa Bickers
The Book Swap  Tessa BickersThe Book Swap Published by Harlequin on September 3, 2024
Genres: Fiction / Friendship, Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy, Fiction / Women, Fiction / World Literature / England / 21st Century
Pages: 336
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Goodreads

"A lovely and lively tale of second chances, following one’s dreams, and books. Bickers deals with sensitive topics with a deft and delicate hand...Highly recommended." - Booklist starred review

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER
A LibraryReads pick!
An Indie Next pick!

A story of second chances and new beginnings, this is a love letter to books—and a love letter to life

Still reeling from a recent tragedy, Erin Connolly knows she needs to start living, but has no idea how. When she accidentally donates her favorite book—a heavily annotated copy of To Kill a Mockingbird containing a memento she can’t be without—to a local little community library, she’s devastated. But then the book turns up a week later, back in the library with fresh notes in the margins, along with an invitation in a copy of Great Expectations to meet her newfound pen pal.

A life-changing conversation, written only in the margins of beloved classic books, begins between Erin and her Mystery Man. Following each other through the pages of their favorite novels as the book exchange continues, they both begin to open up, falling into a friendship…and maybe something more.

But Erin and her pen pal have a shared history that neither of them has guessed. Faced with painful reminders of the past—and the one person she swore never to forgive—Erin finds herself at a crossroads. One that could change her life forever.

A book-lovers dream! References to the following classics can be found in The Book Swap.

  • TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
  • GREAT EXPECTATIONS
  • WUTHERING HEIGHTS
  • MANSFIELD PARK
  • THE GREAT GATSBY
  • MIDDLEMARCH
  • BELOVED
  • ON THE ROAD
  • THE BELL JAR

Review:

The Book Swap is a debut novel by Tessa Bickers and follows three people who were once very close in their younger years, but throughout events where one of them is taken too soon by cancer, a deep hateful strain is between the two that remains. Now, adults trying to forge on in a world where their friend has been gone for a while and is celebrated once a year on her death find their way together through a little free library and note-taking in the margins. The book Swap is a very emotional, raw debut that I connected with on many levels. In the love of annotating in a book and sharing your thoughts with the next person if you share it with others, in striving to re-connect with those who you lost connection with and in healing with your family, and most of chasing your dreams instead of settling for what you think you should be doing. I loved every page of this book and stayed up way too late as I got to this point where I could not stop reading till I finished the book.

About Tessa Bickers

Tessa Bickers studied journalism at Bournemouth university, and went on to co-present a breakfast radio show in the South West.

Moving into celebrity news, she’s interviewed some of the biggest names in show business, including Leonardo DiCaprio and the cast of Sex and the City. Tess started her creative career as a singer-songwriter and after a few failed X Factor auditions she went on to perform at Glastonbury Festival, and Secret Garden Party with her band Tess and the Tellers.

These days she’s replaced her guitar with a keyboard, and songs for books. THE BOOK SWAP is her debut novel, publishing in 2024.