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Glimpses: The Olde Bookshoppe

A bookshop, particularly an Olde Bookshoppe, is home to the world. It is a meeting place for all sorts of people, good and bad, old and young, amazing and ignored, and there we get a glimpse into their worlds. We may, or may not, ever see them again. But still, they have an effect on our lives, our behavior, and our own mental picture of our world. Glimpses: The Olde Bookshoppe is the story of one such bookshop, and the interactions between the staff and the customers who inhabit it, however fleetingly. It is a fun, but also thought provoking, look at the ‘ordinary’ people of this wonderful country, who are often not ordinary at all.

Linda van Omme

Linda (MacLeod) van Omme grew up on a dairy farm on Prince Edward Island. She always enjoyed writing stories and was encouraged in this by her mother, who also enjoyed writing. Her high school English teacher, Mr. Sahajpal, told her to “Never stop writing”, so she did as she was told. She received her training as an occupational therapist at the University of Western Ontario, and worked all across Canada, with all sorts of interesting people, for 42 years. Her dear husband, John, is a retired, United Church minister, and they have three daughters and, so far, four grandchildren.

Austin Macauley Publishers