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Siempre puedes confiar en los libros para mantener tu secreto.

Loveday Cardew prefiere los libros antes que las personas.
Si te acercas a ella lo suficiente, podrás ver que lleva tatuadas las frases iniciales de las novelas que más le gustan. Sin embargo, hay secretos de su pasado que jamás te revelará. Quince años atrás, Loveday perdió todo lo que tenía y amaba en una fatídica noche. Aquel horrible acontecimiento la llevó a convertir la librería en la que trabaja en su único refugio, pero todo está a punto de cambiar: alguien que conoce su pasado está tratando de enviarle un mensaje, y no hay nada que ella pueda hacer para evitarlo.
La vida escondida entre los libros es una novela tierna, irresistible, desgarradora y de una gran intensidad emocional; es un canto de amor a los libros, un bonito homenaje a la lectura y a todos quienes encuentran en ella su redención.
"Una novela única y hermosa que logra crear con ingenio un clímax conmovedor"
Tracy Buchanan
"Insólita, inteligente… es imposible dejar de leerla."
Katie Forde
"Loveday es un personaje maravilloso, me sedujo desde la primera página […] y su librería es el sueño de todo lector."
Julie Cohen, Autora de Dear Thing

"Loveday es atrabiliaria y encantadora. Me he enamorado de Archie y Nathan, de la librería y de la intriga."
Carys Bray, Autora de A song for Issy Bradley y The museum of you

"Una prosa exquisita y evocadora. Loveday es una heroína temeraria y frágil a partes iguales. La inquietante historia de su pasado está narrada de una manera asombrosa."
Tracy Rees, Autora de Amy snow
LanguageEspañol
PublisherMALPASO
Release dateJan 29, 2018
ISBN9788417302092
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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I love any book that mentions "bookshop" in its title!
    I believe this was a first book by an clearly talented author held my interest throughout. The characters are well drawn and believable and the plot is engaging. In it, the protagonist is running from a secret from her past, rebuffing people who try to befriend her, desperate to be a loner. But, the people who surround her care about her, demonstrating that not all love is romantic love, and that, in the end, love is the most vital and redemptive force in our lives. It is our most basic human need.
    If you have read The Little French Bistro, Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore or The Little French Bookstore and enjoyed them, this is another book along similar lines that you will also surely enjoy.
    This book is a worthwhile read and I am glad to recommend it to others.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Full of quirky characters, set in and around a type of Fawlty Towers bookshop, there's a dark secret waiting to be revealed. I found myself being mostly irritated with Loveday, the narrator and central character of the novel however, all in all a good read.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Now twenty-five, a traumatic event when she was ten years old resulted in Loveday being taken into care; life as she had known it changed beyond recognition when she was moved from her childhood home in Whitby, to a foster-home in Ripon. Books and reading had always been a pleasure she had shared with her mother but once she went into care they became so much more than that. They became her refuge, more trustworthy than any human relationships, and also a means by which to shut out the realities of the losses she had faced. When she was fifteen she discovered “Lost For Words”, a second-hand bookshop in York and, as a result of an encounter with Archie, its larger-than-life owner, started working there on a part-time basis. When she had finished her A Levels she decided not to go to university because she was desperate to escape the care system; instead, she moved to a flat in York and started working full-time in the bookshop. This felt like a safe place, somewhere she could lose herself in books and, as Archie was so sociable with customers, could minimise her interactions with people. With her rather spiky, anti-social persona, her nose-ring, dyed hair and various tattoos on her body, quotes of the first lines from some of her favourite books, she makes it difficult for anyone to get close to her. Over the years Archie has got closer to her than anyone else but, even with him, she keeps her defences up, reluctant to let him know anything of the secrets from her past – secrets she is desperate to keep to herself. With well-paced tension, the author gradually reveals the reasons behind Loveday’s almost impenetrable wall of defences. With the present-day story interspersed with two strands of flashbacks, one to her childhood and the other to more recent experiences, the traumas of her past are exposed. One of these involved her experiences with a mentally-disturbed man with whom she had lowered her defences sufficiently to start what turned out to be a disastrous relationship, thus reinforcing her belief that getting close to people was far too dangerous. I thought that the author managed these switches in time-lines in a way which powerfully captured the sad, scared, angry, lost child within Loveday; a child in desperate need of nurturing but who couldn’t trust that anyone could meet what felt like overwhelming needs –overwhelming to her and, she feared, to anyone who tried to get close to her. I thought that the personalities of all of the characters were fully rounded, complex and entirely credible. With an impressive understanding of the psychology of loss and deprivation, there was never a moment in the story-telling when I felt that the author put a foot wrong in her development of each of them. Through learning the back stories of the characters, it became easy to understand what drove their behaviour and this, in turn, made it possible to empathise with them – even with those whose actions caused such damage to other people. Apart from growing to love Loveday, I also fell in love with the wonderful, flamboyant Archie, and with gentle, reliable Nathan, the poet, both are characters who play such a central part in Loveday’s gradual willingness to start trusting both her own, and others’, emotions.I loved the use of poetry and prose which ran through the story like a rich seam of beautiful, thought-provoking reflections on the power words have to transform people’s lives, however damaged those lives may be. I also appreciated the descriptions of Whitby and York, locations I know well and which were vividly brought to life for me, adding an extra dimension to this wonderful story-telling.It felt to me as though Stephanie Butland was never “lost for words” in this reflective, thought-provoking story about abuse, deprivation, grief, loss, mental health issues and, ultimately, the restorative power of love. The serious way in which these issues are explored ensures that this is no lightweight, “chick-lit” story but is, instead, one which will remain vivid in my memory for a long time. Many thanks to Readers’ First and Bonnier Zaffre for copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    *But when you're a child you don't always know the right questions. And you don't know that you dont have forever to ask them
    •But if you work on being invisible you cannot really get annoyed when people don't notice of you.
    • look at me two men in a standoff over my evening plans. One has some fairly serious mental health issues and lectures early Renaissance studies and the other one's wearing a cravat. I couldn't make this stuff up.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I prefer reading books from around the world, excluding the United States because so much has been written in contemporary novels about life in the suburbs that they all feel and look the same. Lost for Words (British backdrop) is a feel good book though Loveday has a tragic past that impacts her present life in which she is trying best to survive. Her voice is lovable and relatable. She lives her life without expectations and the good people keep pouring on her like raindrops (wish that happened in real life too ). Besides her tragic past she gets the best boyfriend, boss, foster parent, all one after another in a row! Oh and the real mother who did an evil deed inthe past is a good mother to her now.still I enjoyed the ambiance of the settings and the thought processes of Loveday’s mind, her doubts and all
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Loveday Cardew works in a bookshop in York. Due to a terrible childhood experience that made her lose her parents, she definitely prefers books to people. Archie, the owner of the bookshop and more fatherly advisor than boss, really cares without asking too many questions. Meeting Nathan, poet and part-time magician, and falling in love with him, seems to give Loveday new confidence to open up and learn to trust people. But hints from the past suddenly appearing in the bookshop mean for Loveday that she has to face up to the past. But can she?

    I like stories that take place in bookshops or are about books. But in this case, the bookshop seems to be just the location of the plot, together with some books quoted, meanwhile the story, written in the first person, is about Loveday´s past. More than three quarters of the book give lots of hints, which begins to be a little bit boring because the reader soon has figured out what might have happened. As Loveday seems to be unable to trust people again, the plot also is about the problems of traumatic childhood expriences and how these influence the future life. Mostly, the plot twists only around a few main characters, I would have liked to know more about the setting, for example customers and their stories. The end was expectable but for me not coherent, considering the plot.

    I would recommend “Lost for words” for readers who like stories about physical problems, inner moods and the struggles of a female main protagonist.

    Ich lese Geschichten, die in Buchhandlungen spielen oder eng mit Büchern verbunden sind, immer wieder gerne. Entsprechend war auch meine Erwartungshaltung an „Lost for Words“. Leider jedoch scheinen in diesem Roman die antiquarische Buchhandlung und einige zitierte Bücher nur der Schauplatz zu sein für die Hauptprotagonistin Loveday und ein schreckliches Kindheitserlebnis, das zum Verlust ihrer Eltern führte. Der Roman ist in Ich-Form geschrieben, Loveday erzählt, und daher geht es in erster Linie um ihre Probleme, verursacht durch dieses Kindheitstrauma, welches ihr gesamtes Leben nachhaltig verändert hat. Sie ist unfähig, sich zu öffnen und Menschen wieder zu vertrauen. Was genau geschehen ist, vermutet der Leser ziemlich rasch, doch die Autorin gibt weiter Hinweis um Hinweis, bis nach etwa drei Vierteln der Geschichte erklärt wird, was geschehen ist. Durch diese endlosen Hinweise und Lovedays sich im Kreis bewegenden Gedankengänge wird das Buch zeitweise leider langweilig.
    Die Geschichte kommt mit wenigen Protagonisten aus. Ich hätte mir gewünscht, mehr über die anderen Menschen und das Umfeld des Buch-Antiquariats zu erfahren, zum Beispiel über die Kunden und ihre Verbindung zu Büchern.

    Empfehlen würde ich diesen Roman für Leserinnen, die sich für Geschichten über innere Befindlichkeiten und die psychischen Probleme durch einschneidende Erlebnisse interessieren und gespannt sind, wie die Hauptprotagonistin damit umgeht.

    Das Ende war teilweise zu erwarten, aber für mich im Rahmen der bisherigen Handlung nicht mehr schlüssig.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Loveday has worked in the bookshop since she was 15. She does not like people very much. Her life was changed when she was 10 and both her parents left her life. Raised in foster care, she learns to keep her own counsel. Now two men enter her life--Rob and Nathan. Which one can she trust?I enjoyed this book. It was not what I expected. I related so much to Loveday. Though this was a sad book for me, it also held hope. It's a book I can pick up again and again and have it speak differently to me each time I read it. There is so much here to discover. I got lost in its pages.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    What a fabulous book! At first I thought it was going to be quite a fun read but it turned out to be a bit of a dark horse! It's also quite sad in places. I loved all the book references, it’s a book about books. It made me want to bump certain titles up the reading pile!! There are some great characters, especially Loveday. She has a great voice and she’s very believable. There is something very endearing about her. Loveday works in a second-hand bookshop in York, she prefers books to people (I hear where she’s coming from!). The arrival of some donated books found within boxes left for her to sort out remind her of her past, a past which she is trying to forget. Is this just a coincidence or does someone know her secret and do they want to make contact? The story is quite enigmatic with hidden depths. It definitely shows you can’t judge a book (or person for that matter) by it’s cover. I found it very hard to put down, just one more page, just one more chapter. A lovely, heartwarming story about books, friendship, life, love and hope.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    In many ways I really liked this book. I identified with aspects of the protagonist and found myself very emotionally involved, although this might be a sign of my weakness rather than the book's strength. Despite my emotional enjoyment of the reading experience, my head told me the plot elements seemed too contrived, with too much predictability, coincidence, and rather artificial mystery, action and suspense. Thus, in the end, this book is really just romance - too much happy ending after a threatened disaster and not enough acknowledgement of complex realities. Domestic violence was a major theme, but enough details were kept from the reader so we weren't too confronted by that awful possibility. A great read for those, like me, who need a break from more serious fiction or whose lives could do with the injection of a bit of fantasy to brighten them up.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Loveday Cardew, a young woman with a painful past, has found a family of sorts in the second-hand book shop in which she works. She lives in a tiny apartment with her books, and she is content to have a peaceful and quiet life with little personal contact except for this chosen family, with whom she feels safe. Her boss is an independently wealthy and delightfully quirky man who runs the business for pleasure and seemingly has history with just about everyone in town. He spends his days schmoozing with customers and with passersby outside the shop, and Loveday spends hers sorting boxes of books, searching for rarer volumes, and running a book discussion group. But her carefully built life begins to crack when she meets a young poet who comes into the shop to claim a book Loveday found out in the rain one evening. Her past is something she's shared with no one, and she worries that she'll need to either be honest with the poet or start keeping him at a distance. Meantime, he gets her involved with a weekly poetry reading, and she even contemplates reading some of her own to the group. Loveday tells her story through three interwoven timelines: the present; a few years earlier, when she met a boyfriend who became a persistent problem; and her childhood. This is a delightful story for lovers of books and book stores.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The Lost For Words Bookshop by Stephanie ButlandLoveday Cardew uses her job at “the lost for words bookshop,” not only as a means for income, but as a refuge and safe place to hide from the world. Her whole life, books have provided her with the escape, comfort and the safety net she needed. Archie is the charming book-owner who is more of a father-figure to Loveday than a boss. It’s obvious that these two have a close friendship. Archie is one of the few people that Loveday has in her life. She was forced into a foster home at the age of ten and has kept to herself, guarding her heart and avoiding relationships of any kind for most of her life.Then things begin to change for Loveday. The mysterious Nathan Avebury enters the picture. He is a magician/poet who quickly becomes part of Loveday’s life. She tries to fight her feelings for him and keep herself from getting too close, but before she knows it, she finds herself in a relationship.Then mysterious packages keep turning up at the bookstore that force her to think about her parents and her past. Will she finally be able to face it and move on?The book of course has a lot of references to other books. It also reflects on what books mean to people and how they can have such an impact on our lives. I very much enjoyed this charming little story that took place in England and I think you will too!
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    The Lost for Words Bookshop by Stephanie ButlandSource: NetgalleyMy Rating: 3/5 stars**Mini-Review**The Bottom Line: In truth, I’m not sure I got out of this book what the author intended. I completely understand Cardew as a broken, sad, individual, but not one who should ever be seen or interpreted as a survivor. In fact, I found myself, throughout this read wanting Cardew to grow up, take responsibility for herself, her life, and choices, and actively pursue some sort of help to deal with her vast issues. Simply put, Cardew isn’t a nice person, and for too many years, she has used her past as an excuse to behave abhorrently. I found it a bloody miracle there was anyone left in Cardew’s life who legitimately liked her. There certainly is a turning point, a moment when Cardew decides to change her life, but it feels, quite simply, like too little, too late. You would think, based on the above, my star rating would be much lower. Alas, there were aspects of this book I very much enjoyed and appreciated. Namely, the actual bookshop, Archie, and Nathan. The bookshop is a cozy environment often occupied by strange and wonderful people, it is a place of refuge and wonder that has been fostered by its proprietor, Archie. Archie is, hands down the best character in this book with his booming voice, his positive attitude, his love of everything and everyone. Archie reads is a completely genuine, kind and caring individual, and for that, I truly loved his part in this book. Nathan, the close-up magician is another character who kept me turning pages. From his crazy attire to his gentle nature, I found Nathan to be a balm to the anger and awful of Cardew. Despite how little I liked Cardew, I still liked this book. I wanted to like Cardew, feel for her, but she was simply to caustic for me to like. Fortunately, between the shop, Archie, and Nathan there was more than enough to balance out Cardew and lead me through to the very end!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    THE LOST FOR WORDS BOOKSHOP is a wonderful place to visit.Loveday gets by, grows up, and recovers from her traumatic childhood with a little help from her friends; even those she doesn't realize she has.Most people get complacent in their daily lives and routines. It's comfortable. But, you never know what you're missing until you allow yourself to move outside your comfort zone, shake it up a bit, push yourself. And so it is with Loveday. Her journey of discovery begins with a found book of poetry.I'm so glad I joined Loveday and her circle, and while there were certainly times my heart broke, both with and for her, it was time well spent.If you enjoy character driven stories without graphic sex or violence, or just need a change from those, THE LOST FOR WORDS BOOKSHOP is certainly that. If you believe in books, judiciously selected words, and their power to shape, offer escape, and healing. This is the book for you.4 starsReviewed for Miss Ivy's Book Nook Take II
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Loveday Cardew works in a bookshop owned by Archie.Working in a bookshop is perfect for Loveday because she is a shy almost introverted person through no fault of her own.THE LOST FOR WORDS BOOKSHOP is a lovely read and will make you jealous of Loveday’s job, but not of the heartaches she keeps hidden.Besides the books and the bookshop, the characters in THE LOST FOR WORDS BOOKSHOP are the best, especially Archie....loved him. He is a bit on the unorganized and fly-by-night type of person, but he loves his job, loves Loveday, and loves how Loveday helps him keep the shop going.Loveday is lovable, sweet, and a bit on the odd side.Nathan is someone I would like to know and someone very sweet to Loveday.Rob was annoying and unlikeable.The secondary characters worked well with the main characters and added mystery and tension.As THE LOST FOR WORDS BOOKSHOP goes back and forth in time, a few mysteries and secrets about Loveday’s childhood are revealed.Her family history definitely explained her closed-mouthed-about-her-feelings, lost-for-words personality.If you like books, bookshops, wonderful characters, a bit of mystery, and secrets kept, THE LOST FOR WORDS BOOKSHOP is for you.I’m sure most readers fall into most of those categories, so you won’t want to miss reading this charming, alluring read.The cover itself draws you in.There are some heartaches in it, but for the most part it is a lovely, bookish read. ENJOY when you read this book. 5/5This book was given to me free of charge and without compensation by the publisher in return for an honest review.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    A book about books, and a bookstore, and a woman who works in that bookstore! A book I should have loved. But I didn't. Here I am, out on the fringe with my apparently unpopular opinion. And so I'll do my best to explain.Problem #1: The pace is maddeningly slow. Hardly anything at all happens in the first half of the book. The second half picks up somewhat, with the last quarter being where things actually happen.Problem #2: The main character is closed off. This is her personality, but the writing style has her closed off to readers as well as the other characters. And that leads to...Problem #3: Because Loveday keeps herself distant, the romance aspect didn't capture me or feel real. I didn't see any playfulness, any joy, or anything other than poetry and sex that connected the characters. Even the sex was a form of release for Loveday, not a form of passion.Problem #4: Here lies my main problem. This story is told in 3 competing timelines. We have 2016, which is the present story. Then we have 2013, where we go back and experience a prior relationship of Loveday's. Then we have 1999, where we spend a lot of time with Loveday as a child. All three timelines are different stories from her life. This approach ties into something within a poem that intrigues Loveday early in the book. In theory, or in poetry, it has appeal, but in novel form it didn't work for me. In the end, this story touches on some powerful topics that should have been heart-wrenching. But I just didn't feel the emotion.*The publisher provided me with an ebook copy, via NetGalley, in exchange for my honest review.*
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    She can be a bit prickly. She is admittedly guarded. Her "people skills" could use some polishing. And rightfully so, considering all she's been through in her short life. But once you get to know Loveday Cardew, you will want her to be your bookish best friend. She works at a York bookstore owned by the lovable Archie. She is, in her young adulthood, still coming to terms with her tragic childhood, which shapes her everyday interactions. And the more you get to know her, the more you learn the backstory she is so reluctant to tell. Page after page, you will root for her every step of the way. Written in a conversational tone, even the difficult subject matter of her younger years is relayed with a care that is unique. Stephanie Butland has created characters that you genuinely care for and with which you want to spend this journey. There's a little bit of Loveday in all of us and I think you'll be happy your met her. A big thank you to Stephanie Butland, Thomas Dunne Publishing, and NetGalley for providing me with this e-book in exchange for an honest review.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Review of Advance Uncorrected ProofMuch preferring books to people, Loveday Cardew has happily worked at the Lost For Words bookshop since she was fifteen. When she finds a lost book of poetry, Loveday posts a notice in the bookshop window, resulting in a magical encounter. But a former boyfriend tries to work his way back into her life and the bookshop receives some strange deliveries. And now, when her carefully-guarded secrets threaten to reveal themselves, can Lovelady’s mysterious past remain unrevealed? Loveday Cardew would be the first to tell you that she prefers books to people. And, as her backstory slowly reveals the complex woman, readers will find this well-crafted tale difficult to set aside. Quirky characters, a charming bookshop, and a young girl’s heartbreaking life weave themselves into an unforgettable narrative of pain and loss, of hope and love, and of the treasure that is a book.Highly recommended.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Loveday is a confused, somewhat prickly young woman who works in a bookshop. She likes books a lot more than she likes people. She has a past of which she is ashamed, and rarely opens up to anyone. The book is written with flashback chapters, in a first person style that felt awkward at first, but matches well with Loveday's personality. It's a moving story, with some dark sections as well as plenty of references to children's literature. I felt the author managed to get inside the mindset of someone tied up in emotional knots, fearful of anyone else finding out about her past, getting everything out of proportion. The gradual unfolding of the past and Loveday's own tentative steps into the future make surprisingly gripping reading. By the time I was about half way through I could barely put it down. More bad language than I'm comfortable with, and perhaps the ending was a bit too good to be realistic. But overall I thought it an excellent novel.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Engaging & chock full of vivid characters good & bad.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Utterly charming and heart-warming. Loveday will alternately break your heart and worm her way into it.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Based on the cover of the book - I pictured in my head an entirely different novel - and that is why you never judge a book by it's cover. I thought this book would be cute, quirky, and fun. It was... to an extent - there was also some really deep emotional elements that I wasn't expecting. Loveday Cardew works at the Lost for Words Bookshop; it's her safe space and refuge and she's worked there since she was 16. Books are safer than people - her only real friend and family is Archie, the owner of the book shop. Readers learn pretty early on that Loveday came from a foster home - but finding out what happened to her family takes the whole book. There are flashbacks to when she was 9 living with her real family to when she was in her early twenties dating a college student to the present. Loveday is essentially a hermit but slowly she starts to open up more. She goes to a poetry night, she laughs at jokes, she goes on a date. Maybe it's never to late to change? Cute, heartbreaking, and sentimental.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Charming! A good bookshop love story and "coming of age" all in one, with some poetry mixed in. The audio might be key here for the British accents and local York vocabulary, but this was pleasant throughout, though not "fluffy." Loveday Cardew is her own worst enemy. She keeps everything bottled up tight inside and as a result doesn't know how to let people in. Fiercely independent since her teens, at 25 this has become a bit of a liability. However as a bookshop worker - the right hand to eccentric shop owner Archie, she can get away with being anti-social and clinging to her routines of working and reading. Until Nathan shows up in the shop one day. Somehow, over a couple visits
    and a little "magic" he entices her out of her shell and convinces her to go to Poetry Night at a local pub. This opens a world for Loveday and inch by painful inch, she learns to love and trust again, second-guessing herself the whole way (truthfully a little tiresome by the very end). She has been burned so often by those she loved that it's a monumental struggle to overcome. Little by little the story of her traumatic childhood gets parceled out to the reader - her memory jogged by several different donations of books that she believes were part of her family at one time. She also made an initial bad choice in dating Rob who hit her. She left the relationship immediately, but he still skulks around the store wishing for her back and stalking her in a passive-aggressive way. He is the true danger in the story, though Loveday believes her past is. As things go well with Nathan, she is face with divulging her story and she resists right to the bitter end, almost losing him in the process. It takes a tragic and dramatic event to finally bring them together and be honest with each other. Told from Loveday's point of view, the story unfolds at the pace she sets and keeps the reader engaged in the reveal of her past as she heals her present and looks to the future.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This book drew me in and, once I was hooked, I tried to savour it. I didn't want it to end and kept reading other books in between. I knew deep down that I would love this novel and would never be able to read it for the first time again.

    It's a novel about finding yourself, becoming comfortable in your skin, comfortable enough to open up to others. Finding your roots.

    I don't want to give anything away. Just let me say, if you like a winding story that lets you in on the protagonist's secrets one chapter at a time, then this is the perfect story for you.