A debut novel to charm all readers, that presents beyond all doubt that it’s books, along with love, that produce the world go round.

It all began using a correspondence between two quite different women: 28-year-old Sara from Haninge, Sweden, and 65-year-old Amy from the small town of Damaged Wheel, Iowa. After years of exchanging books, characters and applying for grants this is of literature and lifestyle, Sara, mousy, disheveled, who has never been anywhere in her life–has really about The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend lived only for her work in a cherished bookshop, which includes just closed its doors for the last time–bravely decides to accept her unfamiliar friend’s invitation to visit. But when she happens, she finds her house empty, the funeral guests just heading home .

Sara finds herself only. And what choice do the inhabitants of Broken Steering wheel have but to take care of their bewildered tourist? And what choice does Sara have, confronted with a city where no one reads and her desire to honour her friend, but to set up an ideal bookshop with all the books she and Amy shared–from Yann Martel’s Lifestyle of Pi to Iris Murdoch and Jo Nesbo, to Bridget Jones and Doug Coupland’s All Family members Are Psychotic to Little House around the Prairie? And then view as the townsfolk are, one at a time, transformed in unpredicted ways. . .

In the glorious custom of 84 Charing Mix Road, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel off Pie Culture, Fried Green Tomato vegetables in the Whistle Stop Café, Will Schwalbe’s The End you will ever have Book Club, Jane Austen, and movies such as You’ve Got Mail and Like Actually, The Visitors of Broken Steering wheel Recommend is usually a big-hearted, witty publication about books, friendship, love–and always being open to the unexpected.