Dear Reader
The moving and joyous story of how books can change your life, packed with recommendations from one reader to another
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4.5 • 6 Ratings
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Last Act of Love, Cathy Rentzenbrink's Dear Reader is the ultimate love letter to reading and to finding the comfort and joy in stories.
'Exquisite' - Marian Keyes, author of Grown Ups
'A warm, unpretentious manifesto for why books matter’ - Sunday Express
Growing up, Cathy Rentzenbrink was rarely seen without her nose in a book and read in secret long after lights out. When tragedy struck, it was books that kept her afloat. Eventually they lit the way to a new path, first as a bookseller and then as a writer. No matter what the future holds, reading will always help.
A moving, funny and joyous exploration of how books can change the course of your life, packed with recommendations from one reader to another.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Cathy Rentzenbrink has been obsessed with reading for as long as she can remember. Dear Reader is her life in books, chronicling a childhood spent cheating bedtimes by sticking her head out the window to read under the late-evening light to her time in charge of book signings as the manager of Waterstones on Oxford Street (Zadie Smith: enthralling. Celebrity chefs: stressful). In books, she found both a “fictional support network” after a family tragedy, along with the confidence to eventually write her own memoir. It is packed with recommendations of her own, under such sub-categories as ‘Bad love’ and ‘Posh people behaving badly’ and the chapters on getting her own father into reading—beginning, unexpectedly, with David Beckham’s autobiography—will make you weep.
