The release date for the English version of 'The Lonely Hearts Book Club' by
Lucy Gilmore is Mar 2023. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
As a librarian in her tiny, restricted town, Sloane Parker has a small, contained existence. Even though she doesn't consider herself lonely, she nonetheless looks forward to the daily time when old grumpy Arthur McLachlan arrives to peruse the shelves and sarcastically taunt her. Sloane looks forward to their fighting so much that she becomes worried when Arthur disappears one morning. And then, day after day, goes by.
When Sloane finds the elderly guy, he is almost bedridden and is trying very hard to disguise how glad he is to see her. This makes her anxious. In an attempt to brighten Arthur's dismal existence, Sloane starts an unplanned reading club. The oddball outcasts from their quaint hamlet gradually start to come together and experience the thrill of improbable friendship in their book club. It turns out that everyone has a specific book inside them, one that they are meant to get lost in (and finally find again) via the pages of.