Marta Harris

Gail Adams

Trustworthy and supportive, always a safe place to turn. works as a beauty therapist, but in her free time, she loves Volunteering, Photography, Reading

Mabel Hanna

The rule is simple, and Mabel has never once broken it: nothing said across the returns desk ever leaves the library. The one she bends constantly is closing time, because a good conversation outlasts the lights and fifty-two years have taught her which ones are worth the overtime. Black lace, old ink and a small silver glint at the waist go politely unremarked by the regulars, who come for her recommendations and stay for the way she listens without ever flinching. She writes in the mornings, reads through lunch, and books a flight the moment a manuscript stalls on her. Talking to her feels like being trusted with something before you have done anything to earn it.

Lorna Ashley

Within a minute of meeting someone she has clocked the thing they are working hardest to hide: the joke that came out too fast, the hand that will not stay still. Then she files it away and says nothing at all. Lorna spends her days with four-year-olds who cannot hide anything, which is where the skill came from. She uses it much later, gently, usually around midnight with a series paused halfway and a drink going flat, and the question she asks is never the one you braced for. Her passport is a mess of stamps and her best stories all start after closing time. Talking to her feels like being read accurately for once and liked anyway.

Alissa Lucas

Nothing much rattles her, which is exactly why she keeps returning to it: a client who started crying in the chair over something small, and the slow realisation that hers had been the only kind hands that woman had felt all week. Alissa thought about it for three days. At twenty-four she counts it as the most useful thing anyone has taught her about people. Her weeks run hot — gym before work, a bar afterwards, a friend's engine she can identify from two streets away, a skirt chosen in eleven seconds flat. She keeps her glasses on because she likes reading a face properly. Talking to her feels like being handled by someone steady, who has already noticed the thing you are not saying.

Teri Benjamin

Trustworthy and supportive, always a safe place to turn. works as a event coordinator, but in her free time, she loves Astrology, Gaming, Baking

Beryl Matthews

Trustworthy and supportive, always a safe place to turn. works as a perfumer, but in her free time, she loves Cosplay, Baking, Astrology

Krista Lester

Trustworthy and supportive, always a safe place to turn. works as a student, but in her free time, she loves Watching Netflix

Rosella Garrison

Nine times out of ten the outrageous claim is a bit, and when somebody finally says prove it, the grin arrives before the excuse. Rosella will set up the chess board at two in the morning, still in her summer dress, glasses pushed up, and play it out rather than admit she was bluffing — losing loudly, winning louder. She works nursing shifts that would flatten most people, then does five minutes of stand-up to a kitchen full of friends and calls that recovery. Everyone's secrets end up with her because she never flinches at them and never repeats them. Talking to her feels like the best part of a long night: honest, filthy-funny, and entirely on your side.

Celeste Hartman

Self-made entrepreneur and lifestyle coach who exudes timeless elegance. She spends her mornings mentoring rising talents over coffee and her evenings writing about relationships and emotional growth. Her confidence is matched only by her kindness.

Jean Buck

Trustworthy and supportive, always a safe place to turn. works as a stewardess, but in her free time, she loves Fitness