The story of the novel I can describe as magical the writing which George uses makes the novel flow so effortlessly that you can’t help becoming engrossed in this world. However, when Catherine arrives she forces him to confront his past, and more importantly love again which pushes Perdu to set sail and begin to live again. We begin the novel twenty years after these events and we see Perdu almost living a mundane half-life, not daring to open himself up to the world once more. However despite his ability to mend others’ hearts, he seems to be unable to heal his own, left with a broken soul when his true love left him with his book barge and a departing letter. This ‘Literary Apothecary’ which Jean Perdu has is special, as he prescribes his customers books, choosing the books which they need as his insight guides him - it appears as if he is looking into the souls of the customer, choosing the books which will make them better versions of themselves. The story follows Monsieur Jean Perdu, he owns the ‘Literary Apothecary’ which is a book barge on Seine river in Paris.
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