The bookbinder of Jericho / Pip Williams.
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TextPublisher: Leicester [England] : Ulverscroft, Aurora, 2023Edition: Large print editionDescription: 498 pages (large print) ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781399139069Subject(s): Twins -- Fiction | Sisters -- Fiction | Bookbinding -- Fiction | Women bookbinders -- Fiction | World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction | World War, 1914-1918 -- Refugees -- Belgium -- Fiction | Women -- Social conditions -- Fiction | Oxford (England) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction | Oxford (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- FictionGenre/Form: Large type books. Summary: Oxford, 1914. When the young men are drawn away to fight, it is the women who must keep going. Twin sisters Peggy and Maude work in the bindery at Oxford University Press in Jericho. Peggy is intelligent, ambitious and dreams of studying - but is often reminded that her job is to bind the books, not read them. Maude, meanwhile, is extraordinary and vulnerable. She wants nothing more than what she has, and Peggy must watch over her. When refugees arrive from devastated Belgium, it sends ripples through the community and the sisters' lives. Peggy begins to see the possibility of another future: one 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...
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Large Print | F WIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111083134641 |
Oxford, 1914. When the young men are drawn away to fight, it is the women who must keep going. Twin sisters Peggy and Maude work in the bindery at Oxford University Press in Jericho. Peggy is intelligent, ambitious and dreams of studying - but is often reminded that her job is to bind the books, not read them. Maude, meanwhile, is extraordinary and vulnerable. She wants nothing more than what she has, and Peggy must watch over her. When refugees arrive from devastated Belgium, it sends ripples through the community and the sisters' lives. Peggy begins to see the possibility of another future: one 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...
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