Wie ein Leuchten in tiefer Nacht

Now available as a paperback: The great new novel by the bestselling author. A celebration of reading and friendship. A grand love story. A book that inspires courage. 1937: Head over heels, Englishwoman Alice follows her fiancé Bennett to America. But instead of finding herself in the land of unlimited possibilities, she ends up in Baileyville, a small town in the Kentucky mountains. The most powerful man is the tyrannical mine owner Geoffrey Van Cleve, her father-in-law, under whose roof she must live. Alice only finds new strength when she joins the women of the Packhorse Library, one of the rural libraries established on the initiative of Eleanor Roosevelt. For those who are too sick or too old, the women bring books to their homes. Day after day, they ride heavily laden horses into the mountains. Alice loves her mission, the wild nature, and its inhabitants. And she gathers the courage to forge her own path. Against all odds.