I will admit I stopped reading this during chapter three because I was bored. The story didn’t hook me in like I hoped it would.

A lovely story told from three perspectives. These three are brought together by all responding to a flyer for The Midnight Library. The seek it out and in doing so become a tight group and begin to find a way to happiness in their unique situations through the magic of the bookshop and Faye, it's keeper. Really lovely.

This book started for me as just another easy fluffy read to devour whilst on a sunbed with a cocktail in hand. However it soon became much much more.

To appreciate the book fully you have to leave any preconceived ideas at the first page and open up you mind to a magical world.

Jo, Adelaine and Kye are all struggling for one reason or another in their fairly mundane lives without being able to see a future. From a brief meeting at a food bank and a mysterious leaflet about the Midnight Bookshop, little do they know that their lives are about to change.

There is much talk in the book about escaping into a book and becoming part of it. As a deaf person I have said for years that I am no deaf when I read as I become the narrator or a character or just intrinsically woven into the story.

The magical part of this book does require you to suspend belief for a while but I suggest you do to have the full experience of a fabulous story!

I will be recommending this to my Bookclub

A magical bookshop that inspires people. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if a book helped you change your life? This is what happens to three unhappy people who discover the Midnight Bookshop, run by the enigmatic Fay, where the books seem to choose their readers, rather than the other way round. Jo escapes into The Great Gatsby, Kye to One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Adelaide to Oliver Twist. Each person learns from their special book how to solve a problem and improve their life. There’s romance in the air for some of them too. A book I was sorry to finish.