This Book Made Me Think of You

This Book Made Me Think of You is Libby Page's contemporary novel about grief, reading and the slow work of starting over. Tilly Nightingale, a Londoner widowed when her husband Joe dies of cancer, is called to her local bookshop to collect a birthday present she never expected: twelve books Joe chose before he died, one for each month of her first year alone, each wrapped with a handwritten letter.

The novel unfolds month by month across that year. Tilly returns to the bookshop for each new title, and her conversations with Alfie, the bookseller who keeps them for her, become a quiet fixture of a life that has otherwise come apart. The books send her outward, into reading-inspired journeys, new friendships and eventually a story she begins to share with other people. What starts as one widow's private year of reading turns into something larger than her own.

Published by Berkley in February 2026, it is Libby Page's sixth novel, following The Lido. Reviewers have described it as warm and openly emotional, a love letter to books and to independent bookshops that treats loss honestly while keeping hope in view, and it carries a gentle romance alongside the grief. It became a USA Today bestseller and a BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick.