A Good Read

The reading List by Sara Nisha Adams

Mukesh lives a quiet life in the London Borough of Ealing. After losing his beloved wife Naina he is living more or less on automatic pilot. He shops every Wednesday, goes to Temple, and spends his evenings watching David Attenborough documentaries. His daughters regularly keep in touch and visit but he is lonely, and he worries about his granddaughter, Priya, who hides in her room reading. Whilst sorting through some of Naina’s belongings Mukesh finds an overdue library book and decides to return it. There he meets Aleisha, a reluctant library assistant working at the library for the summer.

Aleisha has found a reading list, a scrappy piece of paper with the titles of nine books that she’s never heard of, but, bored with her job and intrigued by the list, she decides to read every book. One by one they help transport her away from the painful realities she’s facing at home.  

Mukesh is desperate to forge a connection with his bookworm granddaughter, so Aleisha hands him the reading list, hoping that it will be a lifeline for him too. Slowly, the shared books create a connection between two lonely souls, as fiction helps them escape their grief and everyday troubles and find joy again.

This is a lovely story. It does have some sadness but overall a lot of joy. Thoroughly recommend it.

∼ Happy Reading∼ 

Polly x