Author: Macdonald, Moira

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 3 June 2025 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 320 pages
223 x 145 x 30 | 426g

This is the story of a love triangle... of sorts.

‘I so enjoyed Storybook Ending. It’s the perfect balance of cosiness and originality – warm, comforting, with a hilarious mix-up at its heart that I couldn't wait to see unravel’ Beth O’Leary, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Flatshare

April is lonely. Since her office issued a permanent work from home mandate, she’s lost herself a little. So, in a bid to break out of the funk, she leaves an anonymous note inside a book for the hot guy at her neighbourhood bookstore. Laura is a busy single mum. Thanks to the meddling hand of fate, she’s the one who finds April’s note, thinking it’s from the guy who served her at the bookstore. A little flirtation with an attractive man who loves books might be just what she needs.

Meanwhile Westley, handsome but not so perceptive, is too distracted by a movie filming at the shop to notice either woman's furtive glances as they leave notes for each other amid the books in the stacks.

April and Laura's continued anonymous correspondence will shake all three of these characters out of their mundane routines, sparking a glimmer of hope that they might just get what they want: a storybook ending of their own.

An intricate web of miscommunication and serendipitous encounters, Storybook Ending is a playful tribute to romance, friendship and bookstores; and to the objects – from a forgotten slip of paper to someone’s heart – left between the pages of books.

Readers love Storybook Ending...

‘A book that

is set in a book shop… what’s not to love?’ ****‘A charming

tale that beautifully blends romance, friendship, and the magic of

books’ ****‘A

heartwarming, enjoyable read’ ****‘A wonderful

cosy read that has friendship at its heart’ ****