The Lonely Hearts Book Club by Lucy Gilmore (Paperback) KNOPF “A page-turning whistle-stop tour of

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The Lonely Hearts Book Club by Lucy Gilmore (Paperback) KNOPF “A page-turning whistle-stop tour ofA young librarian and an old curmudgeon forge the unlikeliest of friendships in this charming, feel good novel about one misfit book club and the lives (and loves) it changed along the way. Sloane Parker lives a small, contained life as a librarian in her small, contained town. She never thinks of herself as lonelybut still she looks forward to that time every day when old curmudgeon Arthur McLachlan comes to browse the shelves and cheerfully insult