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The Librarian

by Salley Vickers - £8.99  Penguin Books Ltd (2018)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9780241330234 | ISBN 10: 0241330238

In 1958, Sylvia Blackwell, fresh from one of the new post-war Library Schools, takes up a job as children's librarian in a run down library in the market town of East Mole.
 
Her mission is to fire the enthusiasm of the children of East Mole for reading. But her love affair with the local married GP, and her befriending of his precious daughter, her neighbour's son and her landlady's neglected grandchild, ignite the prejudices of the town, threatening her job and the very existence of the library with dramatic consequences for them all.
 
The Librarian is a moving testament to the joy of reading and the power of books to change and inspire us all.

"Underneath the delightful patina of nostalgia for post-War England, there are stern and spiky questions about why we are allowing our children to be robbed of their heritage of story."
(Frank Cottrell Boyce)

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