Read my 3-star review of Lucy's Little Village Book Club by Emma Davies

Do not get me wrong, I am currently going through an on-and-off reading slump, which completely sucks. For me this book was not quite the catch, even if I did like the characters and the way things were going in this book. I somehow DNF-ed this book, but i kept going on just for the sake of it. Nice one, after all!

(also posted on goodreads)

I enjoyed this book but it was a little bit too predictivefor me. I knew almost at the beginning what would happen but reading it on a cold wet evening was very pleasant.

Thank you for letting me read this book!

I honestly think the author did a very well job by putting a lot of characters in the book, which by the ending they all fit together. Normally I would be confused by more characters because the lack of purpose they have in the story. In this book, that's entirely not the case.
It's so well written, the pages flew by. Although I do think the story was written for a feelgood mood/feeling I didn't get this. That doesn't make the story less beautiful as it is now.

This is a perfect read for a bookworm. It's about a small book club set in a local library. Lucy is the manager at the library and wants to help everyone solve the problems and relationship issues they have. Sometimes things seem to get worse for the people she's trying to help and she wonders whether she should leave things alone.
We see some fledgling relationships take hold and grow throughout the book and it is a very heartwarming book. Lucy, Lia, Callum, Hattie and Oscar soon feel like old friends and you are willing them along and hoping that the sunshine will shine down on them.
Dreams should always be held onto and your hearts desire can become a reality before your very eyes.

Lucy is a librarian in the village of Tillery Moreton. She starts a book club for a group of regular patrons. The characters are all charming and all looking for something in their lives, and they never expect to find it in a book club. More depth in characters and plot than would be expected from "A Heartwarming Feel Good Romance".

I give this book 5 out of 5 heartwarming stars! This book is just what the bibliotherapist ordered! Bookouture has never let me down with the books they publish and they made a good choice by picking Emma Davies and her book Lucy’s Book Club for the Lost and Found! I absolutely loved the characters in this story and I felt I could definitely relate to Lucy. I know what it’s like to conpletely do everything for others and not stop to do for yourself. I still haven’t figured that out. I am so glad I picked up this book and if your looking for a read that will give you all those warm and happy feels you crave, I highly recommend this book!😁💝📚

I just love reading – and even better, reading novels that involve books!

This was a delightful story about would be writer Lucy who has her perfect job in the library and the people that attend her book club. Lucy loves helping people, she's always trying to solve other people's problems, especially those of her book club members. Each has their own worries and concerns, which we learn about as the book develops. I felt really involved with the story. Lucy, Lia, Callum, Hattie and Oscar felt like friends and I was really drawn into the book, hoping for a happy ending from all of them.
This was a thoughtful, well written book and, without giving anything away, I particularly liked how the author dealt with the resolution of Oscar and his search for his daughter. A perfect way to end this novel.

Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for my review copy.

I really liked this novel. The characters are all extremely interesting and complex and it made the story a lot more meaningful. I also liked how this story started with a bookclub, even though it didn’t take as much space in the story as I was expecting it to. I just wish that there was more about the characters’ feelings because sometimes I wasn’t sure of how they were feeling. Overall, I’d recommend this book!

What do you do when you're 24 and you don't know what to do with your degree? If you're Lucy, you get a job at the local library, start a book club, and try to help all the participants until you figure it out. 

There's Oscar, the retired teacher who seems a bit lost since his wife died. He comes to the library several days a week to read the paper and the latest thrillers, but otherwise, he is alone.

There's Lia, the frazzled caregiver of her mom, who suffers from dementia. Her days are filled with meeting other people's needs, barely getting a few hours out of her week to read or talk about books, much less to do what she really wants and learn ballroom dancing. 

There's Callum, the painfully shy computer expert who needs to find a job so he can move out of his house, away from his bullying older brothers and apathetic parents. 

And there's Hattie, a single mom new to their village who finds herself at loose ends since her little girl is getting ready to start school. She joins the local book club to make some new friends and to try to figure out how to fill her days. 

And then there's Lucy, who leads the group but is still a little lost herself. What will it take for these five to move from lost to found? 

Lucy's Book Club for the Lost and Found (published originally as Lucy's Little Village Book Club) is full of good people helping each other through challenges. Emma Davies has created a cast of characters that will bring light and fun into your life, and whose lives feel as real as a neighbor's. So next time life is leaving you needing a great escape or a jolt of good fun, join Lucy and her Village Book Club, where you can lose a few hours finding new friends and joyful hope. 



Galleys for Lucy's Book Club for the Lost and Found were provided by Bookouture through NetGalley, with many thanks.

Thank you to Bookouture for letting me take part in this tour. I love a good chicklit book and this one appealed to me instantly. I love the idea of a book club and wish I knew of a local one I could attend.

While Lucy may be the main character the other members of this book are highly featured and I would say they are more than secondary characters. Lucy runs a book club at the local library. The other members are Lia, Hattie, Oscar and Callum.

Lia dreams of being a dancer but she is a full time carer to her mum. Hattie is a single mum to daughter Poppy but there is a family rift that means that her relationship with her own mother has been tough recently. Oscar lost his darling wife and now the loneliness is setting in. Callum comes from a not so nice family. He wants nothing more than a loving caring family of his own.

I really loved hearing each of these characters stories. Emma does a wonderful job of making sure we understand each character. Their motivations and their dreams.

This story is beautifully written and it might even feature in my books of the year post in a few weeks time. I'm really looking forward to reading more of Emma's books in the future.

The beginning of this didn't hook me, so I have put this book down. It starts with a large cast of characters, and I have heard that this book gets better.

A lovely book with a great cast of characters. I was hooked and moved by the stories of any single characters and it was great to read how the characters evolved.
Many thanks to Netgalley and Bookouture for this book

I don't know about you but every so often I want to sit down and read a book that will provide me with an escape. Whether it's from a bad day or the fact that I just need a relaxing distraction especially as the days and nights are getting colder. So with this in mind I eagerly picked up Lucy's Book Club for the Lost and Found by Emma Davies.

At first I was a little worried that I would find the characters a little confusing as there are quite a few to follow. However they are such a lovely group that is was so easy to become attached to them especially as they all have distinct personalities. Hearing the story from the different perspectives also kept things fresh. There were a number of times where I had tears in my eyes their stories definitely had that emotional edge and I loved how Emma Davies created this wonderful emotional connection. All of the characters had their place and had their own fair share of problems that kept me turning the pages. There is just something about their stories that just seemed to fall into place all moving at such a lovely pace keeping me invested in their stories.

As a bookworm the library setting was perfect for me and I really enjoyed Lucy's connections to the various patrons of the library. Even though she ends up meddling it is all done with the best intentions and I loved seeing this circle of friendships play out.

Lucy's Book Club for the Lost and Found is emotional at times but also uplifting and hopeful, which was wonderful! So grab a blanket, a hot chocolate and be completely caught up in this beautiful story where the pages are filled with love and friendship.

A delightfully warm and comforting story!
Five stars from me!

With thanks to Kim at Bookouture for the invite to join the tour and for my copy. This is my honest and unbiased opinion.

For those of you who have never read a book by Emma Davies, then you are seriously missing out on a ridiculously good author. I have loved all her books, my favourite so far being the festive novella and first part in the Appleyard series, Merry Mistletoe. I was delighted to see a few months ago that Emma had secured a publishing deal with Bookouture, a publisher renowned for the range and diversity of brilliant books they bring to us each year, and that her writing would now reach a much bigger audience as such excellent and wonderful writing deserves to be brought to the attention of as many readers as possible.

The fact that books featured in the title meant that straight away once again Emma Davies was onto a winner for me. But what surprised me the more I became engaged in the story was the depth of emotion throughout and the fact I felt Emma had really stepped her writing up another gear. As in the fact there were so many lines I wanted to write down and treasure because they resonated so much with me and she summed up how I feel about certain stages in life far better than I ever could. At times I felt she took the sentiments and thoughts right from my head and crafted the words together so beautifully on the page. Lucy's Book for the Lost and Found was an excellent read in which I loved every minute of the time I spent with Lucy and the friends she makes through her book club.

Lucy works as a librarian, she is one of those people who is always pleasant and never angry or irritated with people. She enjoys her job but is aware the library is seriously short staffed and that cuts are on the way. Yet her love for books and for interacting with people will never abate and she does her best to make the library a place where people can come to read and relax, to use the computers or simply just to meet up. It's a place that offers comfort ad warmth for keen readers or simply people who feel a bit lonely. That's where her book club comes in, she wants to share her love of books as well as encouraging people to interact and get away from things for awhile. Lucy had the best can do attitude, nothing seemed to ever get her down, she was always on the go helping people but it never felt like she was interfering. It was more like she could never rest and was happiest doing something for others. She saw little connections that needed to be made in order for problems to be solved and she nudged people in the right direction even if they didn't actually realise that was the way they needed to go. Lucy created a lovely, warm inviting atmosphere at the library and the fact she knew its days may be numbered, or severe cutbacks could be on the way, meant she just gave it her all whilst along the way harbouring her own little ambition. An ambition she really doubts she can fulfil but perhaps the friends she makes and people she helps will give her enough fuel for her dream to become a reality once she can push aside the doubt that niggles away at her. Lucy certainly was a person who didn't realise the strength of her own character and personality and the way she can make situations work to the best advantage of everybody. Throughout the story I really felt she was the glue that held everybody together.

For Odelia, Lia, reading is her sanity given the constant strain she is under caring for her mother Rose who is suffering from Alzheimers. Yes carer Gwen comes in daily but the brunt of the care and attention falls to Lia and the stress and strain is being to show. Coming to the book club gives her the rare chance to get way from it all and take some precious little time for herself. I totally identified with what Lia was going through. That you do your best for your loved one no matter what the situation is and no matter how wearing it can be on you but at some point you need to step back and take that little bit of time for you personally or else you will be no good to anyone. Thanks to an ingenious little bit of work/research from Lucy, Lia finds herself in a dancing class. Dancing had been her mother's passion, and Lia's secret ambition, but as she feels chained to her circumstances how could her dream become a reality. Thanks to fellow book club member Hattie accompanying her, Lia embarks on a journey that will change and enhance her life forever but not without plenty of emotions and happy and sad times along the way filled with love, laughter and tears.

Hattie is a single mother who loves reading but can't get out that much. Now that her daughter Poppy has started school Hattie grabs the chance to meet new people. Hattie became firm friends with Lia and in a way they needed each other without even realising it. Hattie had her own personal issues to deal with in particular the relationship with her mother. Without going into detail I could safely say that Hattie's mother was just abhorant. A mother is supposed to love their daughter, be there for her at every juncture in their life and offer kind, loving words and poor Hattie wasn't receiving any of the above mentioned characteristics. I felt deeply sorry for her and was glad she had the book club to help her take her mind off things. Yet the reader could see she was hurting deeply and I wouldn't have thought resentment and distrust was far from her mind. Hattie's strand of the story perhaps turned out to be the most bittersweet.

The last two members of the book club were Callum, who comes from a notorious family but he couldn't be more different from his relations. He spends his days on the library computers and develops quite a friendship with someone. Callum needs confidence above all else and maybe Lucy and her clever ways can help him out. As for library regular Oscar, a widower in his 70's, who enjoys the comforts and company the library offers, just what is eating away at him? With the help of Lucy and Callum, his story is brought to light and hopefully a satisfactory ending can be found in the most unexpected of ways.

Admittedly, there wasn't too much of a focus on the book club, as in the titles featured or further book discussions, but it didn't really matter as this was more about the power of love and friendship and how people can support and encourage each other in their ambitions. Or to share a problem and confidants can help solve it. Lucy's aim with working at the library was that it would only ever be a temporary measure but now it feels as if she has come home as if the books were kindred spirits. Lucy wants to help everybody just like the heroines in books do 'Everything happens for a reason, and maybe if you give them a healing hand somewhere along the line, they'll help you out too, give you something back in return that perhaps you never knew you needed'. That's what exactly Lucy did throughout this book and in doing she she got the push she needed to kick-start her own long held desire.

Lucy had such a way of making people open up to her and share their stories and burdens and the fact she dealt with what she heard so well and tried to give people a better life was only to be admired. Lucy made both the characters and the reader understand that family, love, honesty, friendship and integrity are the most valuable, important things in life. These lines regrading Lucy's opinion of grief were perhaps the most powerful throughout the book and they offered great comfort and solace to me 'Grief was love, that much Lucy recognised. A deep and abiding love that had suddenly found itself homeless, the object of its affection gone, leaving it behind, lingering like a lost spirit. It was a love that would change time if it could, but sentenced now only to travel back and forth throughout the memories that sustained it'.

Without doubt Lucy's Book Club for the Lost and Found is the perfect addition to the catalogue of Emma Davies. It was evident Emma was really enjoying the writing as all the characters were so perfectly crafted but most of all Lucy. She was just so perfectly written when she could have been very OTT. Such care and attention was given to every aspect of the book. The reader gets a lot more than one would normally expect from some women's fictions books and soon all the members of the book club feel like firm friends and you are deeply invested in their problems and wish nothing but a positive, successful outcome for all. This is an uplifting, captivating read with such compelling writing that transports you easily to the heart of the story. It provided comfort and escape at a time of year when you may need it the most and has certainly made me eager to see what Emma Davies has next in store for readers old and new. Definitely one not to be missed.

A nicely paced story centred around a group who meet when a book club is set up by Lucy at the local library. All the main characters have issues in their lives, and Lucy makes a plan to try and help them all out.

Well, this book is the very definition of heart-warming. It seems to fit really well with this time of year. It's not a Christmas book but it makes you feel all warm and fluffy and is perfect for curling up in front of the fire of an evening (not me, I'm always too warm to have the fire on but you get the general impression).

Lucy, as you might expect, is the main character but actually it's very much an ensemble piece. Lucy works as a librarian and inevitably comes into contact with people who may be lonely or struggling with life, seeking companionship at the library. She runs this little book club consisting of herself, Lia, Callum, Oscar and new member, Hattie. Each of them has their own little story going on and for whatever reason their home lives are not that easy.

Each character is really likeable. Perhaps my favourite might be one that I haven't mentioned - Jasper. He is part of Lia's story and I really liked his personality. But I liked everybody and was rooting for them all to get what they wanted out of their lives, including Lucy, who wants to be a writer. The ending was rather clever, I thought, as Lucy's ambition becomes a real part of the story.

I didn't know this book had dug so far into my soul until something happened that caused unexpected tears from me and I realised that the characters had become like friends. It's such a sweet, gentle story and one that I think cannot fail to charm the reader.

The first thing that made me want to read this book was its title and as soon as I finished the first page I was hooked. Flowing with endearing and loveable characters, an engaging plot, and set in a book club in a library, LUCY'S BOOK CLUB FOR THE LOST AND FOUND by Emma Davies is a book that will touch your heart and give you all of the feels.

When Lucy suddenly gives up her idea of teaching and takes up the position of librarian in her local village library, her family support her decision even if they cannot understand it. But Lucy finds it hard to explain just how connected she feels when she walks among the bookshelves every day and gets to know everyone who makes the library a part of their daily lives. And when Lucy starts up a book club and begins to get to know Lia, Hattie, Callum, and Oscar, she desperately wants to try and help them find the happiness that they deserve and what's the harm in meddling if you are only trying to help?

The characters are really strong in this story and I became really invested in their lives as the story developed. Lia was my favourite as she is such a selfless character who has put her life on hold to care for her mother, and I really wanted her to find her own path and open herself up to the world. The pace is perfect and with plenty of misunderstandings and mayhem along the way, you will never get bored with this book.

LUCY'S BOOK CLUB FOR THE LOST AND FOUND by Emma Davies is a story that will make you feel, make you smile, and make you want to read the next book by Emma Davies as soon as possible. Happy reading!

What an adorable book!
This should really be called "Lucy's library for the lost & found" as so much of it centres around the library Lucy manages and it's wonderful; as a library assistant for nearly 10 years it was fantastic to see a book so truthfully represent the hub of a library at the centre of a community, the caring staff and the wonderful, diverse patrons (& unreliable technology!) Obviously I'm biased,but Emma Davies' clear admiration and passion for libraries is music to my ears, particularly at a time when so many are being diminished, or lost.
The complex, heartwarming, tearful stories of the characters all interweave to bring quite the emotional rollercoaster, exploring love, family and how complicated our human connections are.
Thanks to the publisher for the chance to read this title and offer my thoughts.

What can i say about Lucy's book club for lost and found, apart from it was a fantastic read, I loved everything about this book, the lovely characters, it was just a perfect read. Will be reading more by this author.

A warm and friendly book which interweaves the lives of five very different people who meet at a library book club. All with a tale to tell, and a dilemma to face. Uplifting and heartbreaking at the same time. I particularly liked Callum's tale and that of Lia. An enjoyable read.

4*