This is a novel that can set off many discussions topic, and also be an enjoyable book in its own right. His relationship with his father is tough, his concern about a future working in the dog food factory understandable, and his half expressed hopes for romance painful. Tom describes himself as “invisible” as only a quiet sixteen-year-old can be, without friends and having lost his mother when he was younger. It has its comic points – Maggie it seems is a physically tough older lady, when it comes to work on her small holding dealing with Colin and other tasks, and in defence of herself and others. In a way it is a very positive book – but I admit to at least point that I found quite moving when Tom’s dad destroys something important to Tom. My edition also includes “Questions for your Book Club”, which we did not work our way through, but which made interesting points about the book’s themes. It is also of course set in a library, one that Maggie and Tom meet in, and is under threat of closure. It features one character who has severe problems and the topic of loneliness in two different age groups.
It has characters that are perhaps unusual in a contemporary novel – a teenage boy and a seventy-two-year-old woman.
Some book groups go for challenging literature – for our second meeting of our relaunched book group we decided that this book fitted the bill. Book Club Kit: You'll Be The Death of Me by Karen.
Book Review: The Two Week Wait by Lucy J Lewis.Book Review: The Girl From Venice by Siobhan Daiko.Will these two unlikely friends be able to bring everyone together and save their library? As Maggie helps Tom navigate the best way to ask out Farrah, Tom helps Maggie realize the mistakes of her past won't define her future.īut when the library comes under threat of closure, it's up to Tom and Maggie to rally the community and save the library! When Tom comes to her rescue after a library meeting, never did she imagine a friendship that could change her life. Maggie has been happily alone for ten years, at least this is what she tells herself. So Tom quickly decides the best way to learn about women is to delve into romance novels, and he finds himself at the village library where he befriends 72-year-old Maggie. Farah makes Tom want to stand up and be seen – at least by her. He happily blends into the background of life. An unlikely friendship forms between a sixteen-year-old boy and a seventy-two-year-old woman as they rally the community to save their local library.
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