If love lives between the lines, then memories are in the words. To Henry, Howling Books is more than his family's second-hand bookstore in Gracetown, Australia. It is The Letter Library, a collection of people that hide traces of themselves in letters left between book pages. Alternating narratives, Rachel explains how she used to feel the same way. That is until the day before she moves. Using the Letter Library, she confesses her love to Henry. Their friendship is over. Then Rachel's brother drowns. Things fall apart. Reunited in Gracetown, Henry and Rachel realize that friendships do not break easily.

2017 Queensland Literary Award for Griffith University Young Adult Book Award, 2017 Gold Inky Award, 2017 CBCA Book of the Year for Older Readers, 2017 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction, 2017 Children's Book Council of Australia Award Finalist for Older Readers, 2017 Australian Book Industry Award Finalist for Older Children (ages 8-14), 2017 Indie Book Awards Young Adult Finalist, 2017 Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Award Finalist, 2017 Wyoming Soaring Eagle Book Award Finalist, 2017 Vermont Green Mountain Book Award Finalist, 2020 Lincoln Award Finalist.

Cath Crowley is a young adult fiction author based in Melbourne, Australia.

Australia. Originally published in English by Pan Mcmillan in 2016. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf in 2017.

"One of the loveliest, most exquisitely beautiful books I've read in a very long time. . . . I didn't just read the pages, I lived in them." --Jennifer Niven, New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places

A beautiful love story for fans of Jandy Nelson and Nicola Yoon: two teens find their way back to each other in a bookstore full of secrets and crushes, grief and hope--and letters hidden between the pages.

Years ago, Rachel had a crush on Henry Jones. The day before she moved away, she tucked a love letter into his favorite book in his family's bookshop. She waited. But Henry never came.

Now Rachel has returned to the city--and to the bookshop--to work alongside the boy she'd rather not see, if at all possible, for the rest of her life. But Rachel needs the distraction. Her brother drowned months ago, and she can't feel anything anymore.

As Henry and Rachel work side by side--surrounded by books, watching love stories unfold, exchanging letters between the pages--they find hope in each other. Because life may be uncontrollable, even unbearable sometimes. But it's possible that words, and love, and second chances are enough.