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I’d only read Moyes’ Me Before You trilogy before now, but mum leant me this to try after she enjoyed it. I picked it up a little reluctantly as the blurb didn’t massively inspire me, but I really got into it and quickly learned to love the characters (well, the ones that aren’t awful!).

It’s the 1930s, Alice has married an American man and moved across the Atlantic to Kentucky to live with her new husband and his less than pleasant father. To get out of the house, she helps out with the new “Packhorse Library”, where women ride out up the mountains, taking books out to those who live up there, to give them the chance to access recipes, books, magazines, and even children’s books so that they can learn to read. This isn’t a popular decision with her father-in-law, and he tries to turn the town against the library with mixed success.

Much more goes on with the personal lives of the girls who work at the library, they’re the heart of the story, but to tell you what they go through would be to spoil the book – you’ll have to find out for yourself.