The Bookseller - Softcover

What if? These words tantalize and haunt us. In The Bookseller, writing with a sharp-tinged empathic pen, Cynthia Swanson takes us on a startling journey where a woman is thrust into the alternative world that might have been, had she made different choices. --Randy Susan Meyers, author of Accidents of Marriage"

I inhaled The Bookseller. I loved both of Kitty s worlds, and refused to put the book down until I saw how the tension between the two worlds resolved. A deeply satisfying read. --Ann Napolitano, author of A Good Hard Look"

. . . An accomplished first novel. It is interesting, intriguing, and ultimately satisfying. --New York Journal of Books"

Cynthia Swanson s The Bookseller is both a delightful and haunting exploration of identity, love and loss. With great style and compassion, the author asks the age-old question: What if my life were different? The answers in this affecting debut novel are truly surprising. --Joanna Hershon, author of A Dual Inheritance"

What if? These words tantalize and haunt us. In The Bookseller, writing with a sharp-tinged empathic pen, Cynthia Swanson takes us on a startling journey where a woman is thrust into the alternative world that might have been, had she made different choices. --Randy Susan Meyers, author of Accidents of Marriage"

Cynthia Swanson s The Bookseller is both a delightful and haunting exploration of identity, love and loss. With great style and compassion, the author asks the age-old question: What if my life were different? The answers in this affecting debut novel are truly surprising. --Joanna Hershon, author of A Dual Inheritance"

Swanson masterfully crafts both Kitty s and Katharyn s worlds, leaving open the question of which of them is real until the final pages. Swanson s evocative novel freshly considers the timeless question, What if? --Publishers Weekly"

The novel delivers on its fantasy scenario like a modern-day fairy tale . proves highly satisfying. --USA Today"

Cynthia Swanson s novel will make you think about the paths you could have taken but even more so, what you can learn from them to make your reality richer. --Redbook Magazine"

I inhaled The Bookseller. I loved both of Kitty s worlds, and refused to put the book down until I saw how the tension between the two worlds resolved. A deeply satisfying read. --Ann Napolitano, author of A Good Hard Look"