Books

Books : reviews

Jessica A. Fox.
Three Things You Need to Know About Rockets: a memoir.
Short Books. 2013

A bookshop love story

Jessica Fox is living in Hollywood, a 26-year-old filmmaker with a high-stress job at NASA. Working late one night, craving another life, she is seized by a moment of inspiration and taps “secondhand bookshop Scotland” into Google…

The rollercoaster journey that ensues – taking in Scottish Hanukkah, yoga on Galloway’s west coast, and a waxing that she will never forget – will both break and mend her heart. It will also teach her that sometimes we must have the courage to travel the path less taken.