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Synopsis
A detour. A chance encounter. Two women who alter the pages of each other’s story. Juliet Nightingale is lucky to be alive. Months after a freak accident involving lightning, she’s fully recovered but is left feeling that something is missing from her life. Something big. Impulsively, she decides to take a solo summer road trip, hoping that the journey will lead her down a path that will help her discover exactly what it is that she’s searching for. Newly single mom Tallulah Byrd Mayfield is hanging by a thread after her neat, tidy world was completely undone when her husband decided that their marriage was over. In the aftermath of the breakup, she and her two daughters move in with her eighty-year-old grandfather. Tallulah starts a new job at the Forget-Me-Not Library, where old, treasured memories can be found within the books—and where Lu must learn to adapt to the many changes thrown her way. When a road detour leads Juliet to Forget-Me-Not, Alabama, and straight into Tallulah’s life, the two women soon discover there’s magic in between the pages of where you’ve been and where you still need to go. And that happiness, even when lost, can always be found again.
Is The Forget-Me-Not Library appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 13 and up.
This is a gentle, uplifting story about two women finding healing and purpose through friendship and magical realism. Very mild themes of divorce and recovery from trauma, but no graphic content.
What to know going in
This book has no graphic violence, no sexual content, and clean language. Content notes include death of a loved one and divorce.
Publisher ages reflect reading level; our rating reflects content maturity — they can differ.
Who'll love this
Teens might enjoy the magical library setting and the hopeful story of women rebuilding their lives after loss.