Jo steps in to run her Favourite Uncle's stationery and Hardware Store in Hightgate. He has a fall and goes to a home near to her Mother's to recover. He is her favourite uncle and growing up she loved playing in the store. Aside from helping out with the shop, she has another reason to travel to London from North Yorkshire. She is recently heartbroken and needs to lick her wounds. She also doesn't feel as close to her best friend as she was and although she is happy for her, when Lucy fell pregnant, Jo was devastated as she would really love a family of her own. As time goes on, she meets some of the customers and fellow stationery enthusiasts. She also meets the optician and the tattoo artist that share the alleyway. Nothing can prepare her for the friends she makes through the shop and how she learns to think about herself. She has a family nickname of average and has always though that she is nothing special, just average. Her new friends help her in the same way as she helps them. This is is a lovely book, well written and charming. I was rooting for Jo, Ruth and Malcolm all the way through.