The perfect book for anyone who's ever had their heart broken, anyone who's
ever had their broken heart mended, and anyone who's ever visited a bookshop...
Tom Hope doesn't chase rainbows. He does his best on the farm - he milks the
cows, harvests the apples, looks after the sheep - but Tom's been lonely since
his wife Trudy left, taking little Peter with her to go join the holy rollers.
Enter Hannah Babel, quixotic smalltown bookseller: the second Jew - and them ost
vivid person - Tom has ever met. When she asks him to move in, and help her
build Australia's most beautiful bookshop, Tom dares to believe they could make
each other happy. But it is 1968: twenty-four years since Hannah and her own
little boy arrivedat Auschwitz. Tom Hope is taking on a battle with heartbreak
he can barely even begin to imagine.