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	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
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English
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MUST LOVE BOOKS

Shauna Robinson

A novel for every person who has struggled through their twenties, for who have realized their dream job was not nearly as satisfying as they'd anticipated.

After five years of working at Parsons Press, Nora is desperate to get out. The San Francisco branch is a quickly sinking ship, and Nora is about to be the last (highly under-promoted, massively overworked) editorial assistant still standing. Authors are arrogant, pay is scant, and every day is a new goodbye party as one department after another is "restructured." Nora's mental health has never been worse. But she can't leave until she finds another job to cover rent, and every interview so far has been an abysmal failure. It's hard for Nora to fake positivity now that she knows "dream jobs" are a scam.

When Parsons Press cuts already unlivable salaries to stay afloat, Nora is forced to lie her way into moonlighting for a rival publisher. What other choice does she have? She has to survive, after all. Parsons Press's authors are only too eager to find another publisher and Nora feels no guilt helping them defect - poaching her smaller authors won't jeopardize her coworkers' jobs.

But when Nora accidentally falls for an author Parsons Press can't afford to lose - the bestselling business communications expert Andrew Santos, who is as annoyingly positive and persistent as he is charming and supportive and kind - she must decide where her loyalties lie. Parsons Press, Andrew, or ... herself and her future. Whatever that future may look like. Because she deserves one, doesn't she? A good one. And she's determined to find it.

A sharp, swoony debut pitched as The Bookish Life of Nina Hill meets Such a Fun Age, perfect for fans of Younger!

Shauna Robinson received ger Bachelor's degree in English from UC Berkely and lives in Virginia with her husband and their sleepy greyhound.

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Book Published 2022-01-18 by Sourcebooks
Book Published 2022-01-18 by Sourcebooks

Comments

Must Love Books is a heartfelt and exciting debut. With a relatable protagonist in Nora, frank discussions of the Millennial experience, and pitch-perfect sweetness, Shauna Robinson puts forth a wise and honest story of how it feels to be a young woman in search of yourself.

UK: HarperCollins/One More Chapter

Honest, relatable, and real, Must Love Books is a tender reflection on finding your person while you're still desperately searching for yourself rolled up in a thoughtful novel about the changing work world.

"A heartfelt, relatable and thoughtfully-observed story of a young woman's journey to find happiness and fulfilment."

A compelling love story, dishy publishing goss, and a chic urban setting? Yes, yes, yes! But like the works she shepherds through publication, Shauna Robinson's true-to-life story of a struggling editorial assistant is much more than the sum of its parts. Within the pages of MUST LOVE BOOKS the lucky reader will find themselves on a poignant journey of a young booklover with too little support and too many dreamsa place we've all been at one point or another. With emotional honesty and a surprising wit that I found addictive, Robinson's debut is everything a book-about-books fan wants in a novel

A book for book lovers that takes a hard look at the predatory approach of the corporate world with a heroine who's easy to love and root for. I enjoyed all of the inside look at the publishing industry from the perspective of a young woman scraping together all of her wits just to get by. It's impossible not to root for Nora!