"Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt's new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically. The leader, and soon Alice's greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient woman who's never asked a man's permission for anything. They will be joined by three other singular women who become known as the Horseback Librarians of Kentucky. What happens to them--and to the men they love--becomes a classic drama of loyalty, justice, humanity and passion. Though they face all kinds of dangers, they're committed to their job--bringing books to people who have never had any, sharing the gift of learning that will change their lives."--

1. Traveling libraries -- Fiction.; 2. Women librarians -- Fiction.; 3. Librarians -- Fiction.; 4. Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.; 5. Friendship -- Fiction.; 6. Women librarians -- Kentucky -- Fiction.; 7. British -- Kentucky -- Fiction.; 8. Kentucky -- Fiction.; 9. Historical fiction.; 10. Domestic fiction.;