Once in a while, a book comes along that hits all of the right notes for me and imagines a future that I would embrace whole-heartedly. This is it.
Nina is a librarian in Birmingham, UK. She is facing being downsized, as apparently the city is eliminating it's library to focus on a more media-centric (read social media) image. Nina is of course broken hearted, as finding the perfect book for people is her jam.
She needs a plan and needs one fast! She sees an ad for a van/truck posted by a seller in Scotland and imagines using it as a mobile book store. She heads up north to purchase the van and start her life as a book truck (like a food truck, but books!)
The interesting people in the village, however, draw her in. There's the older gentlemen who drink at the pub every day. The women who work as merchants in town. And teenage girl that she takes under her wing. With her will and quirky personality, she manages to help the lives of everyone in town, including the handsome Lennox, her landlord, who is initially grumpy and dour.
I now want a book van. And a life in the Scottish countryside.
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