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The Library at the Edge of the World
by Felicity Hayes-McCoy
I got this book from Net Galley & Hachette Books Ireland in exchange for a fair review.
A simply story about Hannah, 50 plus divorced woman who tries to put her life together. That means, among others, to move from London back to her family town in Ireland, somewhere far away, in a forgotten place. That also means leaving again with her mother (not very agreeable person) and doing the job, which she would have never picked up if not the circumstances.
I really feel for Hannah. Being her age is never easy to pull the life up again. In additional one day she gets to know that she may loose this job and everything what she worked so hard for, would go down. One day she accidentally steps out and she is no longer “one of the invisible locals”.
I liked the scenery where story is located. Leaving for several years in Ireland gave me a pretty good idea the place might look, who are the people, how is their life going on. I loved all the Irish characters. I liked this some sort of a little bit slow motion the books is developing at the beginning. But also at the same beginning, at some point I was lost with who is who. That cleared later but the feeling that some characters should be introduced better, remained.
Altogether: brilliant, charming read written beautiful language.
A simply story about Hannah, 50 plus divorced woman who tries to put her life together. That means, among others, to move from London back to her family town in Ireland, somewhere far away, in a forgotten place. That also means leaving again with her mother (not very agreeable person) and doing the job, which she would have never picked up if not the circumstances.
I really feel for Hannah. Being her age is never easy to pull the life up again. In additional one day she gets to know that she may loose this job and everything what she worked so hard for, would go down. One day she accidentally steps out and she is no longer “one of the invisible locals”.
I liked the scenery where story is located. Leaving for several years in Ireland gave me a pretty good idea the place might look, who are the people, how is their life going on. I loved all the Irish characters. I liked this some sort of a little bit slow motion the books is developing at the beginning. But also at the same beginning, at some point I was lost with who is who. That cleared later but the feeling that some characters should be introduced better, remained.
Altogether: brilliant, charming read written beautiful language.