The Library at Wagtail Ridge
Janet Gover
Reviewed by Helen
This is such a beautiful story, wonderful characters, fabulous setting and filled with emotion, I did shed a few tears reading this one as I got to know Lou, Jake and the lovely people from Wagtail Ridge and the surrounding communities. What can I say who doesn’t love a library?
Lou Taylor has grown up very happy in the suburbs of Sydney with her adoptive parents, she has just finished her degree and has been working at the university till she finds that special job, arriving home one day there is a letter from the solicitor who handled her adoption all those years ago and Lou is not sure whether she wants to open it or not.
Lou visits the solicitor and finds out that she has been left a small cottage in the small town of Wagtail Ridge from her birth mother, the woman who never wanted to be in her life, she packs up and goes to see the cottage, what she finds is not only the cottage but a mobile library and a handwritten letter from Luca, her mother, this starts a journey to find out all about her mother.
She meets Jake, who has been caring for the house since Luca’s death and some of the lovely townsfolk who are all pressing for her to keep the mobile library going and with a task to find more letters Jake agrees to drive the truck and show Lou around and the more Lou learns that harder it is for her to turn her back on Wagtail Ridge and perhaps Jake as well.
So many emotions flow from the pages in this truly beautiful story, come along and meet the wonderful characters and Ollie the Labrador who plays a big part in the story, will Lou sell up and move back to the city or will she make her home in Wagtail Ridge and keep the mobile library going?
I do highly recommend this one, Janet Gover never disappoints.
My thanks to the publisher, Harlequin AU and Netgalley for my copy to read and review.
Lou Taylor has grown up very happy in the suburbs of Sydney with her adoptive parents, she has just finished her degree and has been working at the university till she finds that special job, arriving home one day there is a letter from the solicitor who handled her adoption all those years ago and Lou is not sure whether she wants to open it or not.
Lou visits the solicitor and finds out that she has been left a small cottage in the small town of Wagtail Ridge from her birth mother, the woman who never wanted to be in her life, she packs up and goes to see the cottage, what she finds is not only the cottage but a mobile library and a handwritten letter from Luca, her mother, this starts a journey to find out all about her mother.
She meets Jake, who has been caring for the house since Luca’s death and some of the lovely townsfolk who are all pressing for her to keep the mobile library going and with a task to find more letters Jake agrees to drive the truck and show Lou around and the more Lou learns that harder it is for her to turn her back on Wagtail Ridge and perhaps Jake as well.
So many emotions flow from the pages in this truly beautiful story, come along and meet the wonderful characters and Ollie the Labrador who plays a big part in the story, will Lou sell up and move back to the city or will she make her home in Wagtail Ridge and keep the mobile library going?
I do highly recommend this one, Janet Gover never disappoints.
My thanks to the publisher, Harlequin AU and Netgalley for my copy to read and review.
5 stars
November 30, 2022 by Mira Books
