My initial review I shared on Storygraph said simply: This book is a warm hug! And truly that’s what it is. 

Carl Kollhoff hand delivers books in his neighbourhood. He is often the only link the people he delivers to have to the outside world. We join Carl as things start going wonky for him - his job in jeopardy and a nine year old girl adopting him as a friend - and his almost friends minor and major dilemmas. We’re with them all to through to the wholesome, if a little saccharine, end. 

For fans of (usually Japanese) “healing fiction” or A Man called Ove. I genuinely think this is one of the sweetest reads I’ve listened to. The characters are pretty well rounded and you want them to succeed in their endeavours. Sometimes you need a happy book to break up the cannibalism and poverty and this did the trick!