In a leafy square on Paris\'s Left Bank, a young writer finds a home and an unlikely mentor among the shelves of a legendary bookshop.
Time Was Soft There is the story of a journey down a literary rabbit hole in the shadow of Notre Dame, to a place where a hidden bohemia still thrives..
Within weeks, he was living above the store, working for the proprietor, George Whitman, patron saint of the city\'s down-and-out writers, and immersing himself in the love affairs and low-down watering holes of the shop\'s makeshift staff.
Mercer bought a book, and the staff invited him up for tea.
Wandering through Paris\'s Left Bank one day, poor and unemployed, Canadian reporter Jeremy Mercer ducked into a little bookstore called Shakespeare & Co.
In a leafy square on Paris\'s Left Bank, a young writer finds a home and an unlikely mentor among the shelves of a legendary bookshop
