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The bookbinder of Jericho / Pip Williams.

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TF1313738 F WIL
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Record Number 21906
ISBN 9781922806628
Location F WIL
Author Williams, Pip, 1969-, (author).
Title The bookbinder of Jericho / Pip Williams.
Varying title Book binder of Jericho
Published Boon Wurrung Country ; South Melbourne, VIC : Affirm Press, 2023.
©2023.
Collation 438 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Content types still image
text
cartographic image
Carrier type volume
General Note Includes Book Club questions.
Bibliography Note Includes bibliographical references.
Summary Note What is lost when knowledge is withheld? In 1914, when the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, it is the women who must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy and Maude, twin sisters who work in the bindery at Oxford University Press in Jericho. Peggy is intelligent, ambitious and dreams of going to Oxford University, but for most of her life she has been told her job is to bind the books, not read them. Maude, meanwhile, wants nothing more than what she has. She is extraordinary but vulnerable. Peggy needs to watch over her. When refugees arrive from the devastated cities of Belgium, it sends ripples through the community and through the sisters' lives. Peggy begins to see the possibility of another future where she can use her intellect and not just her hands, but as war and illness reshape her world, it is love, and the responsibility that comes with it, that threaten to hold her back.
Target Audience Recommended by the Retired Teachers Association of the NSW Teachers Federation.
Subject Domestic fiction
Historical fiction
World War, 1914-1918 -- Refugees -- Belgium -- Fiction
Twins -- Fiction
Sisters -- Fiction
Bookbinding -- Fiction
Women bookbinders -- Fiction
World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction
Women -- Social conditions -- Fiction
Geographic Name Oxford (England) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Oxford (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
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