TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thompson,Kate
TI  - The little wartime library
SN  - 9781529395402
U1  - 823.92 23/eng/20220221
PY  - 2022///
CY  - London
PB  - Hodder & Stoughton
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - England
KW  - London
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Librarians
KW  - Libraries
KW  - Female friendship
KW  - East End (London, England)
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - War fiction
N2  - Clara Button is no ordinary librarian. While the world remains at war, in East London Clara has created the country's only underground library, built over the tracks in the disused Bethnal Green tube station. Down here a secret community thrives: with thousands of bunk beds, a nursery, a café and a theatre offering shelter, solace and escape from the bombs that fall above. Along with her glamorous best friend and library assistant Ruby Munroe, Clara ensures the library is the beating heart of life underground. But as the war drags on, the women's determination to remain strong in the face of adversity is tested to the limits when it seems it may come at the price of keeping those closest to them alive
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