Jenny Colgan

Bestselling author Jenny lives in Fife with her husband Andrew, their three children and a Lakeland terrier named Nevil Shute. Where are you going? This summer I am going to South Western France to learn to surf, or die in the attempt. Or at least get some cool stitches.

What will you be reading? I will be taking whatever the latest Jack Reacher novel is – a holiday isn’t a holiday without Reacher smashing himself up some hillbilly noses in my opinion; Daisy Jones & The

Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid, which is apparently about the break-up of Fleetwood Mac; Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver, who tells a good ghost story; and I Never Said I Loved You by Rhik Samadder, which intrigues me as it’s a memoir about depression, but he’s a hilarious writer, so it might be rather special.

✢ Jenny Colgan’s new novel, The Bookshop on the Shore, is out now

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