This was a quick and enjoyable read, partly because it's concerned with the wonder that is the public library (I do love my local library!) and partly because it's one of those warm, goodhearted reads where everything works out well in the end. The heroine, June, is a library assistant who has retreated into herself through a combination of shyness and grief for her dead mum. Her life's about to be upturned, however, as the council's planning to shut down the small town library in which she works, and so June - along with a number of very mildly quirky library users - have to band together to save their community resource.

Most of my reading material comes from the library. I'm there a lot, and I'm grateful to have it. Libraries do so much for their communities, providing services that go far beyond book borrowing, so I'm always going to appreciate stories that are so strongly focused on giving them the love and attention they deserve. This does just that, and if it's fairly predictable and pleasantly inoffensive it's still a happy, relaxing read.