Review - The Lido by Libby Page - a feel good book
What an absolute delight this book was to read. It's a real feelgood book about loneliness, friendship and people, it has a real sense of place and community. Set in Brixton, London it centres on a bunch of random and disparate people who are soehow drawn together by a sense of purpose and that reason is to save a Lido swimming pool from being closed down. We must all have come across something like this over recent years. A local council struggling for funds sells off a public building, maybe a library, a swimming baths or a community centre, we complain, we mutter and we possibly sign a petition to try and help save it, but how many of actually take action? Rosemary and Kate do just that. The Lido has been part of Rosemarys life for over 80 years, she swam there as a child, met her husband there and spent all of her married life using it, looking out at it from the window of her flat. Kate is a junior journalist, she lacks confidence and suffers panic attacks, but when she is ask...