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The Bookbinder
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Elsa and I are starting 8/21 if anyone would like to join us!
Not what I was expecting. Almost finished
In the summary Pip Williams throughtfully explores another rarest seen side of history Through the eyes of the non educated women.
I would love to live in a boat but I need a huge boat.
got behind, plan to start tomorrow!
No problem Take your time
I’ll comment as you go along
Sounds like the beginning of those tiny house so popular today. I would love to live on a bigger one and travel. I was looking as some and they are expensive.As i was reading i also thought where it was going as well.
I read that this was a kind of a second book to one of her previous books, not necessary to read before but some characters are in the first. Did not know that. Now I'm going to have to check that book out.
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.
The Bookbinder is a story about knowledge—who creates it, who can access it, and what truths get lost in the process. Much as she did in the international bestseller The Dictionary of Lost Words, Pip Williams thoughtfully explores another rarely seen slice of history through women’s eyes.