Bookish: How Reading Shapes Our Lives

A celebration of books and a love story to the written word that reveals how books help us connect with other readers through shared stories.

As a child, Lucy Mangan was reading all the time, using books to navigate the challenges and complexities of this world and many others. As an adult, she uses her new relationship with literature to seize upon the most important question: (how) do books prepare us for life?

Bookish vividly tells the story of a reader’s life from the cusp of teenagehoo...