The Reading Room by Ruth Hamilton - Love! Life! Courage!

Ruth Hamilton was born in Bolton and has spent most of her life in Lancashire. She is a well-known writer in the north-west of England. Being the bestselling author of nineteen novels, Ruth Hamilton now lives in Liverpool.

“The Reading Room” is a rich, compelling novel of love and courage written by Ruth Hamilton displaying her unique warmth and humor. The story revolves around the miseries of a courageous lady -- Leanne Chalmers, who decides to move to Lancashire with her friend and her daughter, hoping that she could start a new life and hide her identity. She has already made a successful career in displaying her own style of home decoration and design on the nation's screens.

When Leanne moves to her new place, she changed her name as Lily -- very keen to hide her identities so that her husband, Clive -- who is been sent to prison for his crimes can’t able to find her. Soon Leanne and her companion make friends with Mike -- the Catholic priest, Eve -- a Liverpudlian, Paul and Maurice -- the hairdressers, and Dave and his love -- Philly. Everyone thinks that Lily, with her best friend and a small child has come up from the South West.

As the days go on, Lily's new life gets filled with peace as she joins Dave's reading room, a shop come cafe and library where she begins to relax. But things started to change worse, when one of her friend -- Eve is wounded badly in a burglary, which made Lily to get afraid that her husband has found her hide out, getting closer to her living place for killing her. Will Lily be saved from her terrifying husband?