The little wartime library /
Thompson, Kate, 1974-
The little wartime library / Kate Thompson. - First Forever edition. - 467 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
"First published in 2022 by Hodder & Stoughton, an Hachette UK company"--Title page verso. "Reading group guide copyright © 2023 by Kate Thompson and Hachette Book Group, Inc." -- Verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
"London, 1944: Clara Button is no ordinary librarian. While war ravages the city above her, Clara has risked everything she holds dear to turn the Bethnal Green tube station into the country's only underground library. Down here, a secret community thrives with thousands of bunk beds, a nursery, a café, and a theater-offering shelter, solace, and escape from the bombs that fall upon their city. Along with her glamorous best friend and 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 may come at the price of keeping those closest to them alive"--
9781538724217 1538724219
2022042129
World War, 1939-1945--England--London--Fiction.
Libraries--History--England--London--20th century--Fiction.
Women librarians--Fiction.
Female friendship--Fiction.
Bethnal Green (London, England)--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
War fiction.
Novels.
The little wartime library / Kate Thompson. - First Forever edition. - 467 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
"First published in 2022 by Hodder & Stoughton, an Hachette UK company"--Title page verso. "Reading group guide copyright © 2023 by Kate Thompson and Hachette Book Group, Inc." -- Verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
"London, 1944: Clara Button is no ordinary librarian. While war ravages the city above her, Clara has risked everything she holds dear to turn the Bethnal Green tube station into the country's only underground library. Down here, a secret community thrives with thousands of bunk beds, a nursery, a café, and a theater-offering shelter, solace, and escape from the bombs that fall upon their city. Along with her glamorous best friend and 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 may come at the price of keeping those closest to them alive"--
9781538724217 1538724219
2022042129
World War, 1939-1945--England--London--Fiction.
Libraries--History--England--London--20th century--Fiction.
Women librarians--Fiction.
Female friendship--Fiction.
Bethnal Green (London, England)--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
War fiction.
Novels.