USA. 1937. Alice marries a handsome American, Bennett Van Cleve, hoping to escape the stifling atmosphere of her parents’ home in England, but very soon she realizes she has traded one prison for another. That is why she gladly agrees to work at a rather unusual library through Eleanor Roosevelt’s program.
Margery, who runs this library, is a self-sufficient woman who knows the residents and the customs of the mountains well—she’s used to deciding what to do and how to act without asking men’s opinions, and that’s why she often finds herself in difficult situations. Alice and Margery quickly find common ground and become close friends…
A gripping story based on real events about five extraordinary women librarians who brought books to the most remote corners of Kentucky’s mountainous regions—by the author of "Me Before You"!