The story was set at the end of the 1950s and I got totally immersed in it, with its small town, its bittersweet, though at the same time very humdrum storylines, the library and the characters: both the sympathetic and the nasty ones. There were parts where I would have given 5 stars without hesitation, but the end was spoiled for me. I mean a book about books and a children's library. The story was set at the end of the 1950s and I got totally immersed in it, with its small town, its bittersweet, though at the same time very humdrum storylines, the library and the characters: both t Strictly speaking, this is more of a 3,5 star read when all is said and done despite my loving the story and the setting.

Strictly speaking, this is more of a 3,5 star read when all is said and done despite my loving the story and the setting. How does the library alter the young children's lives and how do the children fare as a result of the books Sylvia introduces them to?. Sylvia falls in love with an older man - but it's her connection to his precocious young daughter and her neighbours' son which will change her life and put them, the library and her job under threat. But the apparently pleasant town is not all it seems. Sylvia Blackwell, a young woman in her twenties, moves to East Mole, a quaint market town in middle England, to start a new job as a children's librarian. Sylvia falls in love with an older man - but it's he A charmingly subversive novel about a library in 1950s England, by the acclaimed author of The Cleaner of Chartres A charmingly subversive novel about a library in 1950s England, by the acclaimed author of The Cleaner of Chartres Sylvia Blackwell, a young woman in her twenties, moves to East Mole, a quaint market town in middle England, to start a new job as a children's librarian.

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