If Ryu Murakami had written *War and Peace* As the introduction to this book will tell you, the books by Gromov, obscure and long forgotten propaganda author of the Soviet era, have such an effect on their readers that they suddenly enjoy supernatural powers. Understandably, their readers need to ke
The Librarian
β Scribed by Vickers, Salley
- Book ID
- 110487448
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 856 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780241330258
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
A charmingly subversive novel about a library in 1950s England, by the acclaimed author of The Cleaner of Chartres
Sylvia Blackwell, a young woman in her twenties, moves to East Mole, a quaint market town in middle England, to start a new job as a children's librarian. But the apparently pleasant town is not all it seems. Sylvia falls in love with an older man - but it's her connectionto his precocious young daughter and her neighbours' son which will change her life and put them, the library and her job under threat.
How does the library alter the young children's lives and how do the children fare as a result of the books Sylvia introduces them to?
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