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|author=Delia OwensAndrew Sharp|title=Where The Crawdads SingChef, the Bird and the Blessing|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy to his employer - is, in his mind, the head chef of a safari business catering to VIP guests in an unnamed African country. Mozzy is earnest and dedicated to his task and he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the guests at BOD-W safaris but his dream is to become the head chef of a restaurant in London or a big American city. Even to win a Michelin star. He is thwarted in this ambition by his boss, Mr Bin (Ben to you and me) who incurs Mozzy's disapproval for his scruffy ways, his uninterest in his guests and - shock, horror - his allowing of bush animals into the house.|isbn=B09926MK8H}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1901514978|title=There's a Problem With Dad|author=Carlos Alba|rating=4.5

|summary= In 1952, KyaLife is different for George Lovelace and he can't really understand why. He's mother disappeared up the dirt track always done everything he ought to town: steady worker, wearing her alligator heels, and never came home. Then one by one her siblings left, ran from the shack on the North Carolina marsh that served as home husband and the life that would lead to nothing but suffering, leaving 7-year-old Kya with her drunken father. Years pass and Kya - now nicknamed 'Marsh-Girl' – still yearned for her mother that would never return and is grew up far too fast for a girl father who can neither read nor writewas always there for school plays and sports days. Finally, one night her father So why is he never came home leaving Kya completely alone quite in tune with those around him? Why does he upset people? Why is someone with such a ''good'' mind unable to survive on the marsh. Eventually, as the years drift painfully by, the time comes when Kya, now an emotional and vastly intelligent young woman, yearns for company besides the gulls and the land, yearning progress at work or to be loved and relate to be held. So, when 2 boys from the town of Barkley Cove find their way his colleagues? Why does he make so many breath-taking gaffes? It's almost become a cliche these days to her, she finds suggest that someone who is a new way of life. But in 1969, the body of former star quarterback and new husband Chase Andrews little different is found lying in 'on the mud of the marshspectrum', and everyone in town immediately suspects but George Lovelace has all the mysterious, runsymptoms of Asperger's Syndrome: high-down Marsh-Girlfunctioning autism. Who is Kya now, after years of isolation and a broken, hardened heart? Is she really capable of murder?|isbn=1472154665

|isbnauthor=1473692407Freya Sampson|title=The Book of Two Ways|author=Jodi PicoultLast Library

|summary=Dawn Edelstein is I am always a little nervous to start a story about a library, since I am a librarian. I always grit my teeth slightly at the thought of the incoming cardigan-wearing, hair in a bun, cat-owning, glasses on a death doula: that's someone who is there for chain stereotypes! In this story, the person who is dyingmain character, June, to make their passage to whatever they believe does put her hair in as easy as possible a bun, and to support their carers. It's she does own a rewardingcat (called Alan Bennett), caring occupation and Dawn puts she has barely any friends and spends her heart and soul into it but this wasnevenings eating the same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But I didn't always her lifeimmediately throw the book out of the window, because I found I was interested in June, and why she lived as she did. Some fifteen years ago she was Her mum used to be a graduate student librarian at Yale working towards her doctorate: as an Egyptologistthe village library, but when she was working with got sick, June gave up on going to University and stayed at home to take care of her supervisor, Professor Ian Dumphriesmum, as well as taking on the Djehutyakht tombs a job as library assistant at Deir el-Bersha on the Nile in Middle Egyptlocal library. Then And even though her mum sadly died some years ago, she was Dawn McDowell: that was is still working there, still eating her mum's favourite takeaway meal, and still reading her maiden namemum's old books. June is stuck, but little does she know, everything in her life is about the name she published underchange.|isbn=183877369X

|isbnauthor=0241295955Emily Critchley|title=Trio|author=William BoydThe Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers|rating=53

|summary=It The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all the hallmarks of something good. I was 1968: intrigued by the year when Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King were assassinated. It's also plot, liked the year when YSK Films are making a movie in Brighton. It's called ''Emily Bracegirdle's Extremely Useful Ladder to design of the Moon''book, or ''Ladder and thought the Moon'' as itauthor's known on setwork sounded interesting. Anny Viklund is From the female star in a production which is proving to be just a little bit racketyoutset it all looked incredibly promising. There are odd pressures So what on the producer, Talbot Kydd, to employ this old actor friend for a couple of days because he needs the money, allow a fading star to use his catchphrase, or include a song from the leading man, whose musical star is fading.earth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091}} 

|authorisbn=Anna BrunoB093VPBL5L|title=Ordinary HazardsCape Henry House|author=Jolly Walker Bittick|rating=24

|summary= Some books either grab you Meet Bosner, or bore you, to give him his full title, Petty Officer Third Class Bosner. And this was We never really find out if he has a first name: there's merely a hint that he had the nickname 'Secretary' at one that I wanted so badly point. He's simply Bosner to like one and all. When we first encounter him he's exploring his memories of 2008 when he was a greaser on helicopters (or helos, as they were called) at a naval establishment. The hours could be long and he was often working nights but unfortunatelyat the age of twenty-one, I just wasn't hookedthere was always a way to work some fun (think drinking and eating) into his day.|isbn=1471184862

|isbn=1712435728B095CY7NBN|title=Jamie's KeepsakeAutumn Camp|author=Michael GallagherBarry Fowler

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=When we first meet Alex Hannah, heIt was to be Brian's just being released from last camp. He'd founded the organisation some four years ago and had done all the organisation since but he was leaving school and the time had come to hand the Southern General Hospitalreins to someone else. The nurse thinks heobvious person was Gary, who'll come back to visit d always been the other patients but Alex has no intention fun element of doing the camps and Brian had said that: he's been there for a yearon this camp, on Gary should act as the same ward where his brother died leader and now, with his hair all shorn off, he's going home in his dead brotherd just be there to observe. The problem with this was that Gary wasn's clothest really an organiser, an administrator if you like. He wants to get outside and back with his friends: his brotherwas the entertainer, Forbes, says that the fresh air will do him good person who basked in the spotlight and made things fun - so Brian stepped in and his mother tells him that he's not to mention TB did the organising. He handed the camp over - and then took it back. And Gary determined to say it was tonsillitishave his revenge. Good luck with that one, AlexThis should have been ''his'' camp.

|author=Helen FisherJohn Boyne|title=Space HopperThe Echo Chamber|rating=3.5

|summary=Faye lost her mum when she was very youngMeet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record". She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from He starts this book a cold that got worsebit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying his child, and although they were kind and very good to but then his author wife is getting her she of course missed kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her mum enormouslywith. So whenThey have three children, unexpectedlywho are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the 70world's and her mumhomeless with out-of-date food, she revels in the chance to create some memories and get to know a fit young lad doing the woman who meant so much to hergay hustle thing. The time travellingAdd in a few other characters – therapists, howeverlawyers, is neither easy nor saferandom transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his life, and Faye fears you have something that her husband won't believe what's happening and so lies suggests an almost farcical approach to him insteadthe modern world. The lies grow What suggests the farcical approach even more tangled, and Faye begins to wonder if it's safe for her to return one last time to however, is the pastfact this is bloody funny. Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mum's death, or will it change her own future forever to attempt it?|isbn=14711886630857526219

|authorisbn= Claire McGowan0008444501|title=The PushAnswer to Everything|author=Luke Kennard|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary= Six mums-to-be meet at Life should have been good for Emily. She had a lovely husband, Steven, who was a prenatal classspeech therapist. It We's NCT ll pass over the fact that they rarely speak to each other and don't even sleep in the same bed. It isn'stylet so much that Emily has left the marital bed as that she's sharing a bed with one of her children as it', but not s the only way to get him to sleep during the proper NCTnight. This bit is important, Arthur and Matty are gorgeous but you have they are a handful and Emily has a job to wait cope with too - she teaches drama two days a little to see whyweek. This being London, such They've not long moved into a class attracts new home in Criterion Gardens: it's a wide variety of people, from all sorts of backgrounds, but for most of the ladies the thing they have in common is trendy area that has been gentrified and it's their first babyrun on semi-communal lines. Probably after the first one, you don't have time for classes, or think you've got child The residents even share eco-rearing down patfriendly electric cars rather than owning their own.|isbn=1542019990

|isbnauthor=0008378363Louise Beech|title=One Perfect Morning|author=Pamela CraneThis Is How We Are Human|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=A husband Veronica is about a devoted single mother to have his throat cut in his own bed. To find out who her son, Sebastian - and why - we need to go back nine days and twenty yearsbut she can't give him everything he wants. Mackenzie, Robin and Lily met when they all went Sebastian has decided that it's time for him to the same college in Monroeville, Pennsylvania and twenty years later they're still the best of friendshave sex. When they first met they called themselves the Spicier Girls But as a nod to the famous girl band of the day. Lily would be Adventure Spice, Robin the Homemaker and Mackenzie an autistic 20 year- wellold, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress in her own lifethat's easier said than done. She married Owen, her college sweetheart and they have a daughter, Aria, whoAnd it's now fifteen-year-oldstarting to cause them both problems.|isbn=1913193713}}

|isbnauthor=B07WWSCGVSAnanda Devi|title=The Lies You Told|author=Harriet TyceEve Out of Her Ruins|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isn't happy about having to start a new school. She's left the school she loved in New York and now she's going to Ashams in North London. It's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth and as the pupils have all been there ''forever'', they have their established groups. Robin's going to be an outsider. And why is this happening? Well, over a matter of a few days her parents' marriage fell apart. Andrew Spence is staying in New York - he works for a securities firm - and her mother, Sadie Roper, has come back to London to pick up her practice as a criminal barrister. That's easier said than done when you've been out of the market place - and the country - for more than ten years.}}{{Frontpage|author=Antoine Laurain|title=The Readers Room4

|rating=3.5|summary=Violaine's publishing house has had a great successAt not even 200 pages, and it was through the slush pile Eve Out of Her Ruins is one of unsolicited manuscripts. The three people who work in the Readersshortest books I' Room to sift through what is ninety-nine per cent dross – plus the fourth advisor ve read in her rarefied mansion up the road – all agreed the book would be a huge smashlong while, and so but it has proven's one of the most dramatic. But there are several It'howevers' to that. As s also told in, however – Violaine herself is not having life all her own a way, for she has been involved in a near-fatal accident, that I can only describe as brutal: it spares nothing and starts this book coming round from a coma. And, however – despite all urgingpulls very few punches, the author of the book has never once made themselves known to the publishers in person, descriptions stark and in fact, offered up a most peculiar statement-come-threat in their last emailunromantic. What is going to befall Violaine, her memory, her staff – and how much is any of it due to the hit novel? And just where the heck did that come from?|isbn=19104779740993009344}}

|isbnauthor=085752612XC J Carey|title=Rodham: What if Hillary hadn't Married Bill?|author=Curtis SittenfeldWidowland

|summary=I was tempted to read It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler'Rodham'' by s schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the success throne of Curtis Sittenfeld's ''American Wife''Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. That book wasnFor yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't marketed happen as being we know it, and we are now a portrait protectorate – well, we share enough of Laura Bush, but the word same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''thinly-veiledthe mainland'' seemed to occur very regularly in reviews. How would ''Rodham'' compare? Unfortunately, there But this is most certainly a difference: relatively little was known about Laura Bushdifferent Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, which gave the book has put all of that gender into a freshness which caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the first third of ''Rodham'' lacks. We've all heard drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the storieschildless, read the books - about Hillary husbandless and particularly about Billthe widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. It's still an interesting conceptAnd in this puritanical existence, our heroine, though: how would Hillary have fared if she hadn't subsumed her own ambitions into Bill's careerRose Ransom, if she hadn't had is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to carry the burden take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all Bill's baggage , not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and if she hadnso they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they't left re stamped ready for reprint. That is her own run job, at least, until the presidency so late? Could she have done better without the Clinton surname?first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|isbn=152941198X

|authorisbn=Anstey Harris0857527231|title=Where We BelongDog Days|author=Ericka Waller

|summary= IGeorge Dempsey is exceedingly angry. It've always believed that places s eight days since his wife, Ellen, died and buildings absorb what happens within them and reflect it back; this is how we can tell 's the first time that a sacred space is sacredshe's let him down. Cate Morris believes a similar thingHe's lost, she believes that bereft without her ( he ''A house absorbs happinessneeds his wife, it blooms into like a snail needs its shell''). He misses their ordered life and rather than bringing him meals to leave on the wallpaperdoorstep, the wood of the window frames, the bricks: thathe'd much rather have a good row with someone. He's how it becomes a particularly angry about the dachshund puppy which Helen brought homejust three weeks before she died.'' She is having these thoughts as she packs up even dared to contradict him when he told her homethat the dog wasn't staying. She has Now he's lumbered with a dog he doesn't want and a load of busybodies who are trying to leaveinterfere in his life. A combination Worst of circumstances means that all is not only redundant but also homeless. With nowhere else to goBetty, she has called on her late husbandwho won's family t take no for helpan answer. Just Betty knits jumpers for Lucky, her greyhound. Lucky spends a few weekslot of time trying to escape from and destroy them.|isbn=1471173836

|author=Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)Martin Venning|title=A Life Without EndThe Primary Objective|rating=42|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=I looked at Sometimes a book starts off slowly, but eventually draws you in to caring about the calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I characters or simply wanting to know, yet another onewhat happens next. It wonSometimes it doesn't be . The basic premise is a good one of the major numbers– a clandestine organisation, but the time when I have the same number operating as Heinz varieties looms on the horizon. And then a few of charity, but funded by various governments around the big 0-numbers, world and if all goes wellpartially (maybe, I'll be an OBE. (Which m not sure) under the auspices of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) Now if that's the extent UN, with the primary objective of my mid-life crisiskeeping the peace, I guess I have to be happyby any means possible. Our author here doesn't use Diplomacy is always the first option and sometimes one that exact phrase, but he might be said needs to be living one. Determined to find carried out how to prolong life by third parties, but for as long as he wants – he would like situations when that looks unlikely to see 400 – he hops right into bed with the assistant to the first geneticist he interviewsyield results Peace International maintains a call-on list of field operatives, ex-military, medics, and they end up scientists or anyone else with a child, which is at least a way of continuing taste for adventure and willing to risk their life for the life sake of his genes, and a motive to keep ongoingit. But how can he get to not flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|isbn=16428606701800461100

|isbnauthor=B08774SJYNKaren M McManus|title=The Greenbecker Gambit|author=Ben GraffCousins

|summary=''I suppose the odd fleeting sense The rich and famous Story family led a life of loneliness is a price all truly successful people must pay for our gifts. I tell myself that I do so willingly.'' Tennessee Greenbecker. Isn't that a name to conjure with? There are hints that it might not have been the name he was given at birthluxury on Gull Cove Island, but many until 25 years ago when each of us have moved onthe Story children - Anders, so far as names goArcher, Adam and Allison - received a mysterious letter from the one we their mother and were originally saddled withcut off completely. Greenbecker's life is one But now, a quarter of constant reinventiona century later, their children have been called to return to the island for the summer by their grandmother. He tells us that he's What does she want with the cousins? Why did she cut off her children all those years ago? Are the foremost chess player never to have been world championdeaths on Gull Cove Island really what they seem? The dark web of twisted lies, secrets and it does seem tragedy that he has some considerable talent as far as chess goes. He's determined that he's going to fulfil what he sees as his destiny. He just needs to do some study to be able to beat held the current players ranked at numbers one Story family up - and two in the world. Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana will not stand in his wayheld them apart - for a quarter of a century is about to come crashing down.|isbn=0241376947}}

|author=J Paul HendersonRuth Hogan|title=DaisyMadame Burova|rating=4.5

|summary=This is book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the story of Herod Searly 1970s, all vaguely connected. Pinkney, So we have a rather unusual bullied half-cast boy (yet somehow charmingas he would have been called then) man who is , a girl in search of a woman called Daisyhumdrum job wanting to become a singer, whom he first sees in an episode of Judge Judy on television and instantly falls in love with her! Rod is writing chiefly, Imelda, the novel third generation of his questMadame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', guided by an embittered exto use her family's sea-literary agent who is now clearing glasses in a pub for a livingfront booth. Determined to find The singer, the scryer and meet Daisy, the book takes us through Rodsufferer's lifemother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, introduces us to his friends, and tells us of what happens but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in his quest for love.|isbn=0857303309}}{{Frontpage |isbn=1529123941 |title=The Silent Treatment |author=Abbie Greaves |rating=4.5 |genre=General Fiction |summary= When we meet Professor Frank Hobbs and his wife, Maggie, Frank is playing chess against his computer, although not very successfullythe family stall. Maggie, We also see her on the other handher last day, has just taken some pills - eight of themfifty years later, in fact - and before long she will collapse. When Frank rings the emergency services in Oxford he has possession of a bit pair of a problem. He has to admit letters that he and Maggie haven't actually spoken will change everything for a whilewoman called Billie. How long? WellJust who is she, it's and who delivered the secrets about six months since he spoke her to Maggie Imelda, and he can't really say if why did it's likely that Maggie has tried have to take her own life.remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331X

|author=Camilla BruceStephen Clarke|title=You Let The Spy Who Inspired Me In

|summary= EccentricThis is a spoof spy story, isolated romance novelist Cassandra Tipp has been missing for that isn't about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. But it features a year man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and has been pronounced legally dead by her lawyers'likes the ladies' and who works for the secret service, but in the planning side of things more than the active service. Her will instructs her niece Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called Margaux, and nephew the pair end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on a desperate mission to enter her home unearth traitors in the resistance network, and find the key Lemming desperately trying to their inheritance in an old manuscript left in keep up with her office: the last story she'll ever tell.!|isbn=17876331792952163855

|author= Becky Albertalli Andrea Bajani and Aisha SaeedElizabeth Harris (translator)|title= Yes No Maybe So If You Kept a Record of Sins|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensLiterary Fiction|summary= ''This was an incredibly readable novella, but one that left me a little conflicted. We might give it start as our all hero arrives at Bucharest airport, and crash and burn. But before we might win. We might actually change things. And that maybe makes it still worth going for, doneven know his gender or the nature of the person he't you think?''Jaime has been spending s addressing in his summer helping his cousin with campaigning in time for second person monologue of a special election. When narration, we see him picked up by his mother encourages him to go canvassing, he can't think of anything worse. Howevers chauffeur, Jaime has always wanted to be a politician and decides there is no time like the present to conquer his fear of speaking carted off to do all the public. Maya is a Pakistani-American Muslim girl who necessary introductions before said mother is having buried the worst summer of her lifefollowing day. Her parents are going through The mother was a separationbusinesswoman, she has zero plans for the summer to help take who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania with her mind off things (night-time and business) partner, and her only close friend is permanently busyfeelings of abandonment are still strong. To help occupy herAnd so we flit from current (well, her parents offer to buy her a car if she agrees to go canvassing. The pair could possibly be this came out in the worst canvassing duo original Italian in history2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, as neither of them really want to be therethe lad's childhood, but and see just what he has to tell her as the campaign goes on they discover that they care, a lot, about the election - and maybe even about each other?private farewell address.|isbn=14711846681939810965

|author=Elliot ReedDavid F Ross|title=A Key There's Only One Danny Garvey|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Years ago, Danny Garvey was a footballing prodigy playing for his local club. Everyone predicted a bright future – but his career in professional football never quite worked out. Thirteen years on, convinced to return home by his "uncle" Higgy to visit his dying mother, Danny takes over the shambolic and once-great team he used to play for and tries to Treehouse Livingreform them.|isbn= 1913193500}} {{Frontpage|author=Gail Honeyman|title=Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine|rating=4.5

|summary=This Eleanor Oliphant is the story of almost 30. She lives in Glasgow, alone. And she likes it that way. She works 9-5, 5 days a young boyweek, William Tyceand spends the weekend not drunk, who is being raised but not sober. alone. And she likes it that way. She lives by his uncle after the death of his mother a routine, and his fatherthat's abandonmentfine, thankyouverymuch. Nothing is missing from her life. Except everything is. HoweverUntil one day, it isn't told at a concert she won tickets for in an office raffle, she sees the usual narrative wayman she is sure will be her husband. Instead, Eleanor begins a journey to make herself the book is made up best version of glossary entriesherself that she can, written by Williamin order to secure this beautiful musician. Then, as a she's on her way of describing certain eventshome one Friday, situations she and the new IT guy at her office see a man collapse in the street and emotionsstay close to him in hospital. It runs alphabeticallyThen, before she knows it, starting her once quiet life becomes a hubbub of social engagements with ABSENCEthe man's family and friends, then moving with Raymond from IT and of course her side project of falling in love with Johnnie Lomond. But just as her life seems to ALPHABETICAL ORDERbe looking up, things take a turn for the worse. As I began Is Johnnie all he's cracked up to read I did find myself thinking 'what on earthbe? What secrets does Eleanor have from her childhood?!Eleanor' but I soon grew used s walls have been broken down and she has to fight her way out of the style, and was instead caught up in Williamshadows - but maybe she doesn's storyt have to do it alone.|isbn=19115454180008172145

|authorisbn= T R HendrickB08GFSK2WZ|title= What if They KnewThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd|rating= 4|genre= General Women's Fiction|summary= ItGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She's not had sex for eight months and she's 2025. Underneath a lodge stuck in the Blue Mountain resort in Pennsylvania, karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and she has a secret facilityreal talent for attracting drama. Here, Dr Benton and his team are making some critical scientific advances on behalf Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the Benefactorstairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and left her, their anonymous funder. Alreadystark naked, staring at the team have succeeded in teleporting small primates from one place to anotherpervy postman. But, unbeknownst She only has to the Benefactor, Dr Benton has also coded for another type of teleportation altogether - travel through time. And hetake her mother's ready dog out for a walk for her to testend up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the office. If successful, Benton has a very specific use for his technology in mind|isbn=1734277211

|author=H G Parry Matt Haig|title=The Unlikely Escape of Uriah HeepMidnight Library|rating=45

|summary=Brothers Rob Between life and Charley have struggled death there is a library. And so, 38 minutes after Nora decided to see eye to eye for years - Rob a sensible lawyer who exists die, she finds herself in the "normal" world - and Charley a man who is blessed with an ability he canMidnight Library. Everything that could've gone wrong in Nora's life has. Her cat died, she lost her job, her brother won't fully control - one which allows him speak to bring literary characters into her, her parents are dead, the real worldboy she teaches piano to no longer cares about piano, she called off her wedding, and old Mr Banerjee next door no longer needs her help. After years She gave up on all the things that would've let her escape the wet, cold town of protecting Charley, Rob wants to discharge his duties Bedford and leave Charley to his own devices - but circumstances soon take choices out of both their handsgiven her life some purposeful direction. As literary characters begin to appear everywhereSo at 23:22, it soon becomes clear she realises that someone out there shares Charleyshe isn's powers t made for life and intends decides to use them for nefarious gainsdie. But instead of death, she finds the library. Rob and Charley must team up Each infinite shelf is filled with books, each book providing a chance to stop the madness - try another life she could have lived, in a battle to win before theyparallel time. And so, just after midnight on Tuesday the characters and the world reach The End…18th of April, Nora Seed begins to live every life she could've.|isbn=03565137771786892731