When he gets there though, he ends up lying about his past and is offered romance novels to read by the local librarian and an elderly woman named Maggie who goes to the book club there. As Maggie helps Tom navigate the best way to ask out Farrah, Tom helps Maggie realize the mistakes of her past won't define her future.But when the library comes under threat of closure, it's up to Tom and Maggie to rally the community and save the library!Will these two unlikely friends be able to bring everyone together and save their library?. When Tom goes to the village library, he wants to just go someplace where he can study and hide from his father. When Tom comes to her rescue after a library meeting, never did she imagine a friendship that could change her life. Read The Library the uplifting and feelgood page-turner you need to read in 2023 by Bella Osborne available from Rakuten Kobo. So Tom quickly decides the best way to learn about women is to delve into romance novels, and he finds himself at the village library where he befriends 72-year-old Maggie.Maggie has been happily alone for ten years, at least this is what she tells herself. I loved the vivid descriptions of nature and Maggie’s farm and animals. Farah makes Tom want to stand up and be seen - at leastīy her. The Library by Bella Osborne is a sweet, delightful read with endearing characters and an engaging narrative shared in alternating chapters from the perspectives of Tom and Maggie. He happily blends into the background of life. An unlikely friendship forms between a sixteen-year-old boy and a seventy-two-year-old woman as they rally the community to save their local library.Tom is invisible.