The Coastal Bookshop Café

(InnerSelf Enabled🎭) At the very end of the quay in Porthcarrow, where the harbour wall meets the Atlantic, there is a crooked little bookshop that also sells the best scones in Cornwall. Its owner has a new hip and a stubborn streak, and she has handed you the keys for the summer. Three months of salt, sand and paperbacks. You live in the flat upstairs with gulls on the roof. Next door, Poppy sells pasties and terrible pick-up lines. The new baker came down from London fast and won't say why. The owner's granddaughter counts seals for a living and thinks you're going to ruin the shop. The surf instructor, the gig rower, the potter, the lifeboat volunteer and the girl who sings at the Ship all come in for coffee, and one regular buys every romance novel by an author she swears she has never read. Gig races, regatta week, a summer gale, a lifeboat launch and a bonfire on the sands. A sunlit seaside slice-of-life romance.