In the Oise, independent bookstores continue to appeal. The death of a loved one in 2022 will act as an electric shock.
“I get asked a whole bunch of things that I hadn't thought of, I adapt as I go,” says Amélie Marcaille, the new manager of a bookstore in Grandvilliers, the town of 3,000 inhabitants about 30 kilometers north of Beauvais. The premises had been vacant for a long time, it was a pizzeria, which closed during Covid.