This book made me want to curl up under a blanket with copious amount of tea, and consume it all in a single sitting. Easily readable, a great premise, and all kinds of kooky characters grab your attention from the first chapter.
Martha is a single, middle aged woman living alone in her cliffside cottage years after her parents (whom she cared for for fifteen years) have passed on. She keeps herself busy doing tasks for others. Always being helpful. Never saying no. She is left a mysterious package at the library where she works one evening, containing a battered book of fairy stories with an intriguing inscription from her beloved (and deceased) grandmother - dated three years after Martha was told she had died.
She brings the book to the attention of her younger sister, who tries to persuade her to let sleeping dogs lie. Of course, Martha can't leave it alone, and the book follows her quest to discover where this book originated from, and who the author could possibly be. She is made whole and torn apart through the pages of this wonderful novel. Your heartstrings will be tugged as Martha unearths portions of her own past she knew nothing about; and as she puts all of the pieces together. You get to watch her go from being a shell of a person, to truly becoming who she really is.
I feel I could honestly go on and on about this novel, discussing favorite chapters, and delve into which character I completely adored.. but I can't give too much away. Once again, a title containing "library" has proved to be a delightful read.
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