PositiveThe Seattle TimesAuthor Rachel Joyce has created the equivalent of the Cheers bar in a record store: The Music Shop is a warm, familiar place where everybody knows your name ... Unlike the famous TV-series bar, also from the 1980s, the novel’s shop is not in Boston but instead in a gritty corner of England. Yet the setting really could be any industrial city with its brightest manufacturing days behind it. Frank is the maestro bartender-type character who will listen and, more often than not, fix everyone else’s problems, but rarely looks inward at his own ... Music fans reading the book will hear in their heads an inspiring soundtrack that jumps from Aretha Franklin to Glenn Miller to Vivaldi.
