This selection of candid correspondence compiled by the celebrity scientist covers everything from life and death to hope, hate and race. But it is in her compassionate portrayal of well-drawn characters that the novel’s greatest strength lies. Based on a true story – the library was an initiative of Eleanor Roosevelt’s – Moyes’s book delivers evocative descriptions of the Kentucky landscape and rich historical detail, as well as thoughtfully probing themes of class, race, poverty and violence. Undaunted, she joins a travelling horseback library, through which she meets a remarkable group of women and learns that independence is born of friendship and self-fulfilment. In 1930s Kentucky, Alice Wright marries an American to escape her claustrophobic English family, only to find herself stuck with an inattentive husband and an overbearing father-in-law.
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