A Room Above a Shop by Anthony Shapland crossword with his neighbour – a

with his neighbour – a married woman close to his mother’s age – as his only companion

a panorama of a remarkable talent

the devastation of Western foreign policy and the pain and pleasure of hot pot

'Sometimes all you want is the novel equivalent of Gilmore Girls

When they descend on the isolated world of Anjiin

A Room Above a Shop by Anthony Shapland crossword with his neighbour – aWhen two quiet men form a tentative connection neither knows where it might lead. M has inherited his family's ironmongery business and B is younger by eleven years and can see no future in the place where he has grown up, but when M offers him a job and lodgings, he accepts. As the two men work side by side in the shop, they also begin a life together in their one shared room above the kind of life they never imagined possible and that risks