Return to the DallerGut Dream Department Store is Book of the Week at Waterstones of Norfolk Street in Lynn
Here’s our weekly look at books, with the book of the week and top ten chart…
This week’s Book of the Week with Waterstones of Norfolk Street in Lynn is Return to the DallerGut Dream Department Store.
The beguiling sequel to DallerGut Dream Department Store finds Penny embracing the wider remit of the dream industry, such as the Civil Complaint Center and how to lure back unsatisfied regulars.The book is also Waterstones Science Fiction & Fantasy Book of the Month for November.
It has been a year since Penny first walked through the doors of DallerGut Dream Department Store and surviving a year at the store means one thing. She is now an official employee of the dream industry! She can finally take the express commuter train to the Company District, where all the dream production companies are located and discover how all raw dream materials and testing equipment are produced.
But the Company District is not quite what she expected, it hides the darker underbelly of the magical industry that Penny thought she was a part of.
Penny discovers the Civil Complaint Center, full of people filing complaints about their dreams. She also learns about the regular customers who have stopped coming to the store. As she gets to the bottom of each complaint, she begins to expand her horizons, transforming from just selling dreams to understanding what lies in the hearts of their lost regulars.
Return to the DallerGut Dream Department Store delves deeper into the dream industry and its customers. Why do some of them buy a dream and never return? Will Penny and her colleagues be able to bring their regulars back?
* See this Friday’s Lynn News for a £1 money off voucher for this book, redeemable at the Lynn branch of Waterstones in Norfolk Street.
This week’s Waterstones of Lynn Book Chart
1. In Too Deep – Lee Child
2. Cinnamon Bun Book Store – Laurie Gilmore
3. Man in Black – Elly Griffiths
4. Last boy of ‘66 – Geoff Hurst
5. Diddly Squat: Home to Roost – Jeremy Clarkson
6. Murder Under Misletoe – Rev. Richard Coles
7. Return to the Dallergut Dream Department Store – Miye Lee
8. Seven Wonders of the Ancient World – Bettany Hughes
9. Patriot – Alexei Navalny
10. Shakespeare – Judi Dench
