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Ok…this one is strange. The nameless narrator is on the run with $168,000 in cash and not much else. Who is he? What is he running from? Where is he going? It‘s a short book, but the answers appear close to the end. Hard to put down and a weird conclusion. I liked it though and I found its strangeness rather interesting.

Hubert Bird moved from Jamaica to England in his early 20‘s, met the girl of his dreams, and started a family. Now in his 80s and living alone, he struggles to make himself leave the house. A young neighbor pulls him out of his shell, and together they decide to address loneliness as a societal issue in their town.

Reminiscent of Ove, beautiful and sad and sweet, with issues such as addiction, estrangement, and loss of family members. Loved it!

I normally don't read anything that can be considered "self-help" because those kinds of books always seem common sense to me.

I honestly downloaded this because it was a short audiobook.

Turns out something happened this week that left me feeling rejected and blindsided...this book addresses those feelings.

I love when books show up at just the right time ? This felt like divine intervention

Not quite what I thought it would be, but exactly the book it needed to be. The tone is a bit quieter, a bit more solemn overall, but the sense of community found via the catalyst of looking after a mouse was indeed present. I didn't realize how much of the book would be centred on loss, grief, trauma; memories and nostalgia and how those can be a wound or a comfort. 1/2

MOOD. 😂

It‘s a wrong book, wrong time situation. My ‘bail‘ is directly related to my current inability to focus on anything requiring any brainpower. I actually enjoyed the half of this book that I read, and maybe I‘ll pick it up again, but for now, back to the library.

Finished Sipsworth on a #readathon date with my husband while he was finishing up A Man Called Ove! A perfect pairing. ❤️ I wanted a book that would make me feel like I did when I read A Man Called Ove years ago, and this did that. A touching story where we get to know and love the characters and relish connection and hope. #deweysreadathon

Listened to this on a cross country drive with my husband. We both enjoyed the light heartwarming tale. It starts slowly with a declining woman who is utterly alone and awaiting death. But with the arrival of the titular mouse she finds herself and her community again.

I loved how Helen‘s backstory was sparingly revealed and that though it slowly dawns on Helen & reader she has grown lonely, she isn‘t an overly sentimental woebegone character.

I wasn‘t crazy about the end (perhaps too twee?) but I‘m hard to satisfy.