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Great characters
Lucy is a clever girl with a good degree, so her parents don’t understand why she chooses not to gain a Masters or to use her father’s contacts to get a su... READ MORE
This book will run away with your heart.
Thoroughly intriguing and full of sparkling wit from the outset, this novel had me hooked from the first page. Everyone knows the trope of the romantic lib... READ MORE
Synopsis
Lucy Hull, a young children’s librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both kidnapper and kidnapped when her favourite patron, ten-year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. The precocious Ian is addicted to reading, but needs Lucy’s help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly anti-gay classes. When Lucy finds Ian camped out in the library after hours with a backpack of provisions and an escape plan, she allows herself to be hijacked by him and the pair embark on a spontaneous road trip. But is it just Ian who is running away? And should Lucy really be trying to save a boy from his own parents?
Publisher information
- Publisher: Cornerstone
- ISBN: 9780099538127
- Number of pages: 336
- Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 21 mm
- Weight: 235g
- Languages: English
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View alleasy to read
This book is a lot more interesting than I thought it would be. I have described it to friends as a story about a librarian who accidentally kidnaps a 10 y... READ MORE
Don't Borrow - Buy!
This book is about a children’s librarian, Lucy, who takes Ian, a 10-year old boy who spends a lot of time in the library, on a road trip in her car and ke... READ MORE
This book is fantastic
I read this book in a day, I could not put it down. It is definetly one I could easily re-read again and still enjoy as much as I did the first time. I wou... READ MORE
A book that grows on you!
I had to re-read the first couple of chapters of this book to try to get interested in the story. However once the road trip started I did feel compelled t... READ MORE
A good pageturner
This book is about an underachieving librarian and one of her '' borrowers'' a boy called Ian Drake . She realised the boy is not happy and takes off with ... READ MORE
An excellent story about the power of books.
This is the type of book you could easily race through in a day. It's very readable, intriguing and with some lovely change of formats throughout (Chapter ... READ MORE
I loved this book!
I was first drawn to this book by the fact that the blurb mentions that the two main characters are a librarian and a 10 year old book addict - two charact... READ MORE
I'm very glad I was sent this book
Waterstones sent me this book. I probably wouldn't have chosen it for myself, but I'm very glad I was sent it, as I really enjoyed it.
‘What’s it about?’ ... READ MORE