Twelve-year-old Bobby Nusku is an archivist of his mother. He catalogues traces of her life & waits for her to return home. Bobby thinks that he`s been left to face the world alone until he meets lonely single mother Val & her daughter Rosa. They spend a magical summer together, discovering the books in the mobile library where Val works as a cleaner. But as the summer draws to a close, Bobby finds himself in trouble & Val is in danger of losing her job. There`s only one thing to do -- & so they take to the road in the mobile library.. . Quirky, dark, magical & full of heart, Mobile Library by David Whitehouse is both a tragicomic road trip & a celebration of the adventures that books can take us on. It`s a love-letter to unlikely families & the stories that shaped us.