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Libby Page

    Libby Page's writing centers on themes of community and connection within urban landscapes. Her narrative style is characterized by keen observation and a search for beauty in everyday life, reflecting her background in journalism. She crafts compelling stories that explore the bonds between people and places. Page is drawn to uncovering hidden pockets of community and finding inspiration within the city.

    Libby Page
    The Lifeline
    The lido
    The 24-hour cafe
    The Island Home
    The Vintage Shop
    The Vintage Shop of Second Chances
    • 2024

      Fans of Libby Page's smash-hit debut, THE LIDO, will love this gorgeous follow-up novel about two women who find solace in wild swimming, friendship and community.

      The Lifeline
    • 2023

      Among the cobbled streets of the Somerset town of Frome, Lou is embarking on the start of something new. After the death of her beloved mother, she takes a deep breath into the unknown and is opening her own vintage clothes shop. In upstate New York, Donna has just found out some news about her family which has called into question her whole upbringing. The only clue she has to unlock her past is a picture of a yellow dress, and the fact it is currently on display in a shop in England. For Maggy, she is facing life as a 70-something divorcee and while she got the house, she's not sure what to fill it with now her family have moved out. The new vintage shop in town sparks memories of her past and reignites a passion she's been missing...Together, can these three women find the answers they are searching for and unlock a second chance at a new life?It's never too late to start again...

      The Vintage Shop of Second Chances
    • 2021

      "Lorna's world is small but safe. She loves her daughter, and the two of them is all that matters. But after nearly twenty years, she and Ella are suddenly leaving London for the Isle of Kip, the tiny remote Scottish island where Lorna grew up. Alice's world is tiny but full. She loves the community on Kip, her yoga classes drawing women across the tiny island together. Now Lorna's arrival might help their family finally mend itself - even if forgiveness means returning to the past... So with two decades, hundreds of miles and a lifetime's worth of secrets between Lorna and the island, can coming home mean starting again?"--Publisher.

      The Island Home
    • 2020

      The 24-hour cafe

      • 368 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      3.8(323)Add rating

      Welcome to the cafe that never sleeps. Day and night Stella's Cafe opens its doors for the lonely and the lost, the morning people and the night owls. It is many things to many people but most of all it is a place where life can wait at the door. A place of small kindnesses. A place where anyone can be whoever they want, where everyone is always welcome. Meet Hannah and Mona: best friends, waitresses, dreamers. They work at Stella's but they dream of more, of leaving the cafe behind and making their own way in life. Come inside and spend twenty-four hours at Stella's Cafe; a day when Hannah and Mona's futures will be changed and their friendship tested. Today is just the start, but it is also marks a conclusion. Because all beginnings are also endings. And all endings can also be beginnings ...

      The 24-hour cafe
    • 2018

      The lido

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      3.8(15891)Add rating

      A joyous feel-good debut novel about community, love, friendship and outdoor swimming.

      The lido