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001 on1371469064
003 OCoLC
005 20230819115542.0
008 230224t20232023nyub 000 1 eng
010 _a 2023007834
020 _a9780593600443
_q(hardcover ;
_qacid-free paper)
020 _a0593600444
_q(hardcover ;
_qacid-free paper)
020 _a9781922806628
_q(International edition)
020 _a1922806625
035 _a(OCoLC)on1371469064
040 _aDLC
_beng
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050 0 0 _aPR6123.I55269
_bB66 2023
082 0 0 _a823/.92
_223/eng/20230224
100 1 _aWilliams, Pip,
_d1969-
_eauthor.
_9138558
245 1 4 _aThe bookbinder :
_ba novel /
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bBallantine Books,
_c2023.
264 4 _c�2023
300 _a436 pages :
_bmap ;
_c24 cm.
490 1 _aA Reese's book club pick
500 _a"Originally published in Australia as The Bookbinder of Jericho by Affirm Press, South Melbourne, in 2023"--Title page verso.
520 _a"It is 1914, and as the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, women must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy and Maude, twin sisters who live on a narrowboat in Oxford and work in the bindery at the university press. Ambitious, intelligent Peggy has been told for most of her life that her job is to bind the books, not read them--but as she folds and gathers pages, her mind wanders to the opposite side of Walton Street, where the female students of Oxford's Somerville College have a whole library at their fingertips. Maude, meanwhile, wants nothing more than what she has: to spend her days folding the pages of books in the company of the other bindery girls. She is extraordinary but vulnerable, and Peggy feels compelled to watch over her. Then refugees arrive from the war-torn cities of Belgium, sending ripples through the Oxford community and the sisters' lives. Peggy begins to see the possibility of another future where she can educate herself and use her intellect, not just her hands. But as war and illness reshape her world, her love for a Belgian soldier--and the responsibility that comes with it--threaten to hold her back"--
650 0 _aWomen bookbinders
_vFiction.
_9138559
650 0 _aTwins
_vFiction.
650 0 _aSisters
_vFiction.
650 0 _aBookbinding
_vFiction.
_936427
650 0 _aSoldiers
_vFiction.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1914-1918
_xRefugees
_zBelgium
_vFiction.
_9138560
650 0 _aWorld War, 1914-1918
_zEngland
_vFiction.
_915557
651 0 _aOxford (England)
_xHistory
_y20th century
_vFiction.
_9138561
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aWilliams, Pip, 1969-
_tBookbinder
_bFirst edition.
_dNew York : Ballantine Books, 2023
_z9780593600450
_w(DLC) 2023007835
830 0 _aReese's book club.
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999 _c63909
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