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A review by egfrith
The Railwayman's Wife by Ashley Hay
2.0
I received this book as a pre-release publisher's giveaway through Goodreads.
What I thought (from the description) would be a story about a new librarian discovering books, love, and love of books turned out to be a story about some nice, but sad, people in a small town, and how they all deal with death. I was not impressed by the change, and it didn't help that the only character I really sympathized with died early on (not a spoiler; it's in the blurb), and then the author kept torturing the reader with flashbacks to his point of view.
What I thought (from the description) would be a story about a new librarian discovering books, love, and love of books turned out to be a story about some nice, but sad, people in a small town, and how they all deal with death. I was not impressed by the change, and it didn't help that the only character I really sympathized with died early on (not a spoiler; it's in the blurb), and then the author kept torturing the reader with flashbacks to his point of view.