I rarely use the word "charming", but this novel was charming! I thoroughly enjoyed the setting, the many unusual characters and the unique story of this book.
This the story of Maggie, who was recently "involuntarily separated from payroll" at her lucrative Silicon Valley startup.
Stunned and unsure what to do next, she spends her days reading romance novels in a comfy old chair in the local used book store "The Dragonfly". The old, cluttered and unorganized bookstore is the gathering place for many of the neighborhood folks, and they, along with the mean old cat that lives there and the small staff of the bookstore become Maggie's new friends.
Learning of a possibility to climb back into her startup "ArGoNet Software", she joins a book club in order to meet and schmooze the top brass of the company.
In hopes of attending the next meeting, which is just the next day, she must read "Lady Chatterley's Lover" (which she hasn't read since high school) in a single evening. In the dragonfly, she finds an ancient copy of the book, and when she settles down to dive in and read it, she discovers hand written notes in the margins between two lovers of long ago.
Maggie is fascinated and her curiosity leads her to research the lovers, their story and their fate, and in doing so, discovers much about herself and her life and her future is altered forever.
A warm, funny and comforting novel, I highly recommend this one.
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