Description: An utterly charming and heart-warming love story and the perfect tonic for difficult times.
Daisy is the night security guard at the Manchester Museum of Social History. She takes her job very seriously, protecting the museum from teenage troublemakers.
Nate works the day shift, though he’d be more suited as a museum guide the way he chats with the visitors. Daisy doesn’t approve: how does he find it so easy to talk to strangers?
For five minutes each day their shifts overlap at handover. He passes the torch over to Daisy – always with a smile on his face, and she asks him for a full report of the day, which he gives reluctantly. It’s the only interaction they have… until mysterious things begin to happen at the museum.
They soon discover they have a lot more in common than they realised… and their investigations uncover more than just the truth. Could they have feelings for one another?
https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-handover/david-m-barnett/9781409185246
Why We Like It
In The Handover, David M. Barnett has created such a special book.
He has taken a comparatively simple premise of two people handing over to each other at the end of one shift and the start of another and woven each of their stories so cleverly that as the book evolves we become completely invested in them and their evolving relationship.
He also sensitively handles so many contemporary issues through the relationships that Daisy and Nate have with the other characters in this book.
A beautiful, moving and uplifting read! Highly Recommended!