The library at the edge of the world: a novel

✍ Scribed by Felicity Hayes-McCoy

• Book ID: 100576522
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 220 KB
• Edition: First U.S. edition
• Category: Fiction
• City: Ireland,Ireland.
• ISBN: 0062663739

✦ Synopsis

November 2017 LibraryReads Pick

In the bestselling tradition of Fannie Flagg and Jenny Colgan comes Felicity Hayes-McCoy's U.S. debut about a local librarian who must find a way to rebuild her community and her own life in this touching, enchanting novel set on Ireland's stunning West Coast.

As she drives her mobile library van between villages of Ireland's West Coast, Hanna Casey tries not to think about a lot of things. Like the sophisticated lifestyle she abandoned after finding her English barrister husband in bed with another woman. Or that she's back in Lissbeg, the rural Irish town she walked away from in her teens, living in the back bedroom of her overbearing mother's retirement bungalow. Or, worse yet, her nagging fear that, as the local librarian and a prominent figure in the community, her failed marriage and ignominious return have made her a focus of gossip.
With her teenage daughter, Jazz, off traveling the world and her...

✦ Subjects

Dwellings -- Maintenance and repair