The Lonely Hearts Book Club

Lucy Gilmore is a celebrated novelist in a wide range of genres including literary fiction contemporary romance and cozy mystery. She began her reading (and writing) career as an English literature major and ended as a book lover without all those pesky academic papers attached.<br><br>She lives in Spokane WA with her family. Visit her online at www.LucyGilmore.com. <b>A young librarian and an old curmudgeon forge the unlikeliest of friendships in this charming uplit novel about one misfit book club and the lives it changed along the way.<br></b><br><b>Because books have a way of bringing even the loneliest of souls together…<br></b><br>Sloane Parker lives a small contained life as a librarian in her small contained town. She never thinks of herself as lonely...but still she looks forward to that time every day when old curmudgeon Arthur McLachlan comes to browse the shelves and cheerfully insult her. Their sparring is such a highlight of Sloane's day that when Arthur doesn't show up one morning she's instantly concerned. And then another day passes and another.<br><br>Anxious Sloane tracks the old man down only to discover him all but bedridden...and desperately struggling to hide how happy he is to see her. Wanting to bring more cheer into Arthur's gloomy life Sloane creates an impromptu book club. Slowly the lonely misfits of their sleepy town begin to find each other and in their book club find the joy of unlikely friendship. Because as it turns out everyone has a special book in their heart-and a reason to get lost (and eventually found) within the pages.