USA. 1937 Alice marries a handsome American, Bennett Van Cleve, in the hope of escaping the stuffy atmosphere of her parents' home in England, but soon realizes that she has traded one prison for another. That is why she happily agrees to work in a very unusual library under the Eleanor Roosevelt program. Margery, who headed this library, is a self-sufficient woman who knows the inhabitants and customs of the mountains well, and is used to deciding for herself what to do and how to act, without asking the opinions of men , and therefore often finds himself in difficult situations. She and Alice quickly find a common language and become close friends... An exciting story based on real events about five extraordinary women librarians who delivered books to the most remote corners of the Kentucky mountains, from the author of “Me Before You”! For the first time in Russian!