The Bookbinder of Jericho Pip Williams

The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams is my book of the month for June 2024. What a joy! Polished writing (brilliant editing, well done Vintage – a division of Penguin – there’s been a lot of poor editing from major houses recently), a beautiful story with so much packed into it without a lot of dramatic action.

Peggy is an identical twin, but while physically she and Maude are hard to distinguish, her twin is quite far on what today we know as the autistic spectrum. Peggy is not, and ha...