Nicole Abadie

Hi, Kate.

Hi, Cassie.

How are you?

Same old, same old, really, besides the fact that we're now allowing limited people into the shop.

So it's six people at a time.

But the one thing that's changed is that people want more books than ever before.

People are leaving the bookshop with upwards of five to six, ten books at a time now because they have more time to read and spend in these fictional worlds.

Absolutely, yes, yes.

I think it wouldn't be correct to say business is booming, but business is doing okay, is doing well.

I think for the most part, during these current circumstances, people are coming to the bookshop knowing precisely what they want.

They know they can't browse the shelves as they normally would.

So shows like this one, for example, and podcasts like Nicole's really help readers identifying the books that they want to read so they can come to us and have an idea of what they want right away and we can just pass it across to them immediately.

No more browsing.

No more browsing.

Well, that's changed this weekend.

People have started to be able to browse again.

But yeah, for a good couple of months there, we were just serving people from the front door.

It was a little bit surreal.

I love the first portion of the book.

I've read both of her autobiographies in Living History and the more recent one, What Happened?