Running an island plane service with her grandfather on the remote islands of northern Scotland, Morag McGinty, on the verge of making a huge life change, is marooned on an off-grid island with a visiting ornithologist who has just the right perspective to help her pilot her course.

"Nina Redmond is a literary matchmaker. Pairing a reader with that perfect book is her passion... and also her job. Or at least it was. Until yesterday, she was a librarian in one of Birmingham's old libraries. But the library is being shut down. Determined to make a new life for herself, twenty-nine-year-old Nina moves to a village in Scotland, where, according to an advertisement, an old van is for sale. She buys it, and turns it into a mobile bookstore....