The Library of Lost and Found

[Audiobook]
By: Phaedra Patrick 
Narrated by: Imogen Church
Publisher: Harlequin Audio
Dates Listened: September 29 - December 4
Length:  10 hrs 32 min
Source:  Overdrive

Why did I read it?
Yet another audiobook to fill the complete silence of my office.  I seem to be on the search for the perfect book about book-lovers.  

 

Martha Storm is a part-time librarian waiting for her chance to finally be hired on full-time (after a decade plus of work).  One night on her way into work, she finds a mysterious book outside the library door.  However, this is not any ordinary book, it is a book full of stories she wrote when she was a child.  Not only are these her stories, but there is a handwritten note addressed to Martha inside from her grandmother, dated two years after her supposed death.  This sends Martha on a mission to figure out how her stories ended up in a book, how her grandma could have signed that note, and how it ended up at her library in the first place.  

 

The Library of Lost and Found is a nice book about a book.  Martha is a middle-aged woman just waiting for her time.  After leaving the life she knew to take care of her parents when they were sick, she has fallen into a life of taking care of others instead of herself.  When a book with her stories shows up all of that changes.  On her search to find answers, she makes some new friends, reconnects with family, and finds herself.  The story overall is pretty charming and there is maybe even a hint at love, but there were many parts you could see coming long before they happened.  The writing was really good but if you want more of a mystery, this isn't it.  

 

There was a little something at the end that I thought was pretty weird and random.  For a 40 something year old, she reacted (I feel) unrealistically and found herself in another unrealistic situation.  It through me off a fair bit and seemed pretty out of place.  It was used as a climax that sets the book off too finish, but it just did not work for me.  

 

The audiobook was read in a lovely British accent, as all British book should be.  It could make any book better - this one didn't need it, but it's always appreciated. 

Rating: 3/5

Recommendation: It's a charming book about a lady with a book.  If that sounds like something nice to you, go for it.