This was a brilliant read. As soon as I started reading this book I just knew I was going to love it. Highly recommended

This book had all the feels! I loved it and have since read more of Felicity's books.

Hanna moves back to the small town in Ireland she grew up in after a failed marriage. There she takes over running the local library. There are all the usual problems of living in a small village where everyone knows you and your history. Felicity writes characters and settings well. It was an enjoyable read from start to finish.

A very well written feel good book that has the added bonus of a library setting (my main reason for requesting). It took me ages to get around to reading this but I am glad I finally did as I really enjoyed it. I hope there will be a sequel.

I love libraries, in fact, I work in one. This was the deciding factor when I decided to request The Library at the Edge of the World by Felicity Hayes McCoy from NetGalley. What I was fortunate enough to get in this book was a rather charming story about starting over and the power of community.

The Library at the Edge of the World is the story of Hanna Casey. Hanna is divorced, works in her local library (a job she is seriously over-qualified for), and back living with her mother. Middle age isn’t how she pictured things to be. With that in mind she decides to invest in a property that was left to her in a distant relatives will. Oh she also decides to help save her small town from mass expansion too. She is a bit of a hero like that.

I really enjoyed The Library at the Edge of the World. It was a book of fun and escapism and that made it utterly charming.

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It sure is a feel good book and I especially enjoyed the setting in a small town Ireland. It sounds like a lovely community. The ending is okay as all goes well, but I feel like there are some few loose ends that need to be tied. I guess there will be a sequel to this. I can’t seem to connect to Hanna most of the time and I don’t think it’s because of the age. There are also a lot of characters that it got so confusing to follow who is who. It started painfully slow for my liking that I find myself skimming some pages because it fails to catch my interest. The conflict came later on in which I feel like a good quarter of the book can be shed off.

It is well-written, though, and the main reason that I keep reading. That and the second half of the book is so much better that I managed to get through it until the end. From the numerous characters, there are some whom I enjoyed reading than the others. Sister Michael, a nun in the convent, and Fury, the carpenter who’s fixing Hanna’s cottage, both of them helped Hanna save the library and the community. There’s a hint of romance, too, which is not really the focus of the story, which I like. I also love how everyone banded together to save not only the library but the whole community. With all that, I’d say it is still a good read overall. It just needs the kind of reader who will enjoy not only the writing style but also the lovely setting in Ireland.

The book is about a woman in her 40s trying to reconstruct her life after a divorce. For me it was all about finding your own reserves to get through tough times and this really resonated with me, it is also set in the most beautiful part of Ireland so was wonderful to read.

I enjoyed following the library van to the edge of the world in this lovely tale. I perfect book to settle down with while on holiday.

A gentle summer read for lazy days. Based in Ireland, Felicity Hayes-McCoy has the ability to describe the landscape so you can smell the salty air and see the blue sea. It tells the story of librarian, Hanna living back home with her mother after a marriage breakdown in the village of Finfarren. I found the inhabitants interesting and it is they who drew me into the book rather than Hanna herself.

The only reason my library would not purchase this title is because I work in an elementary school.
This book is fantastic and as I'm a huge Mauve Binchey fan, I'm thrilled to find a writer that would continue in her style.
Thank-you for sending me this arc.

I got this book from Net Galley & Hachette Books Ireland in exchange for a fair review.
A simply story about Hannah, 50 plus divorced woman who tries to put her life together. That means, among others, to move from London back to her family town in Ireland, somewhere far away, in a forgotten place. That also means leaving again with her mother (not very agreeable person) and doing the job, which she would have never picked up if not the circumstances.
I really feel for Hannah. Being her age is never easy to pull the life up again. In additional one day she gets to know that she may loose this job and everything what she worked so hard for, would go down. One day she accidentally steps out and she is no longer “one of the invisible locals”.
I liked the scenery where story is located. Leaving for several years in Ireland gave me a pretty good idea the place might look, who are the people, how is their life going on. I loved all the Irish characters. I liked this some sort of a little bit slow motion the books is developing at the beginning. But also at the same beginning, at some point I was lost with who is who. That cleared later but the feeling that some characters should be introduced better, remained.
Altogether: brilliant, charming read written beautiful language.

An absolutely charming book with characters who are easy to identify with. Set in a beautiful location this is a story of community and new starts.

I loved the fabulous descriptions of the location - I would love to visit Co. Kerry. The characters are well rounded and I like them all. I enjoyed Hanna's story and seeing her bring back her cottage to life. The fight for the village library is one faced frequently at the moment and I loved how the community worked together.

A warm, enjoyable read which I highly recommend.

This was a lovely book. Enjoyable read. But at times a little slow. A mix of lovely very different characters that all blended well in the story. I would definitely recommend this book to others. I am on holiday ATM so will review elsewhere on my return

When I was a student 20 years ago I went to Ireland and subsequently became obsessed with All Things Irish. As an avid reader my reading choices were also influenced, and I read everything I could find by Marian Keyes and Maeve Binchy (20 years ago chick lit was HUGE).
Fast forward to 2017. I received an ARC of The Library at the Edge of the World (thanks Netgalley) and hoped it would bring back some of that old Irish magic. It did.
I found the descriptions of the house on the hill so evocative. I actually had a dream while reading the book about having a little cabin of my own somewhere. The characters in the book were outspoken and kind, and life in and around the village seemed charming, despite the challenges. Sometimes I felt that there were too many details about the council's workings but I realize that they were integral to the plot.
I thought this was an excellent feel good story of contemporary life in a small Irish village which is threatened by high level government decisions.
This book is perfect for readers who want the same slice of Irish life feeling as Maeve Binchy and Marian Keyes but with less of a romance angle and more of a generic where is my life going angle.

Thanks Netgalley and the Publisher. A wonderful tale of going home after a divorce and trying to find your place in the community again. Too old to be living with her mother Hanna struggles to make sense of what's happened in her life. With her adult daughter living in another country and a fiercely independent mother she's not sure where she belongs. Deciding to renovate a dilapidated cottage on the edge of the cliff and leading the fight to save Lissbeg library where Hanna works give her something to focus on

Hannah left her cheating husband in London and went to live with her daughter Jazz with her mother back in Ireland, but with Jazz now living in France she is finding it fraught living in her mothers bright pink house!

Hannah is the local librarian and is considered a bit aloof by the locals but when the new council plan is announced for the area she ends up being the leader of the fight to keep the library and local services open with the unlikely help of an ancient nun.........all this at the same time as trying to renovate a tumbledown cottage left to her decades earlier by an old aunt.....life is suddenly not quiet!

A lovely book the first I have read by this author but I will be looking out for others by her. The characters in the book are great especially Fury the builder and I love the way the community all pull together

Such an enjoyable read. I really loved meeting all of the characters in this book and wish the author would write more about the inhabitants of this lovely Irish town (and surrounding area). My favorite was Fury O'Shea what a name!

All in all a great relaxing read that would make a perfect lazy day read. Lose yourself in this lovely Irish town.

Well written the characters are slowly developed so it makes the book interesting to read a well developed storyline.
Definately recommend this book could be used in a book club to discuss certsin issues the book brings up.
e.g. starting again,new beginings,community spirit.

A wonderful tale of going home after a divorce and trying to find your place in the community again. Too old to be living with her mother Hanna struggles to make sense of what's happened in her life. With her adult daughter living in another country and a fiercely independent mother she's not sure where she belongs. Deciding to renovate a dilapidated cottage on the edge of the cliff and leading the fight to save Lissbeg library where Hanna works give her something to focus on. Things don't always go to plan though and her life starts to take turns in directions she couldn't have imagined.