The Library at the Edge of the World

The Library at the Edge of the World

When Hanna Casey discovered her high-flying barrister husband's longstanding affair, she left their London home and returned with her teenage daughter to the little village where she was born, on Ireland's Finvarra Peninsula. Now, after six years living with her widowed mother Mary, Hanna has settled into a dull job as a local librarian in the small nearby town of Lissbeg. On a whim she decides to spend her savings on a renovating a derelict two-room house on a patch of land inherited from her great aunt, and finds herself leading a battle to restore the heart and soul of Lissbeg's fragmented, neglected community. Hanna and those around her begin to rediscover the power of the past, the joys of the present and the courage to believe in the future.
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Connor @cgbart
4 stars
Oct 5, 2022

Maybe 3.5. The first half/two-thirds of this book really didn't do it for me--I've no patience for Malcolm or any of those related plot lines--but I loved Sister Michael and the library/community aspect of the last half. Still think the chapters were oddly short (you can have?? more than one scene??? in a chapter???) and that they ended rather too abruptly for my taste nine times out of ten, but over all not a bad read.

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Caitlin Hooker@chooker
5 stars
Mar 12, 2023
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Beth Livingston@readergirl19
2 stars
Jan 18, 2022
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Laume Zekas@laume
4 stars
Nov 16, 2021
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Tannie Davidson@sarcasmwearseyeliner
5 stars
Nov 3, 2021
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Samantha Ridge@samjane
3 stars
Aug 30, 2021