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092			_aWILLIAMS _bPIP
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aWilliams, Pip, _d1969- _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe bookbinder : _ba novel / _cPip Williams.
250			_aLarge print edition.
264		1	_aWaterville, Maine : _bThorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, _c2023.
264		4	_c©2023
300			_a651 pages (large print) : _billustrations, map ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aThorndike Press large print softcover romance and women's fiction
520			_a"A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when World War I upends her life in this new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese's Book Club pick The Dictionary of Lost Words. "Williams spins an immersive and compelling tale, sweeping us back to the Oxford she painted so expertly in The Dictionary of Lost Words."--Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife It is 1914, and as the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, women must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy and Maude, twin sisters who live on a narrow boat in Oxford and work in the bindery at the university press. 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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aWomen bookbinders _vFiction. _9251733
650		0	_aTwins _vFiction. _918295
650		0	_aSisters _vFiction. _919554
650		0	_aBookbinding _vFiction. _9110021
650		0	_aWorld War, 1914-1918 _zEngland _vFiction. _915003
650		0	_aWorld War, 1914-1918 _xRefugees _zBelgium _vFiction.
651		0	_aOxford (England) _xHistory _y20th century _vFiction.
650		0	_aLarge type books. _95333
655		7	_aHistorical fiction. _2lcgft _9683
655		7	_aNovels. _2lcgft _92408
655		7	_aLarge print books. _2lcgft _9136572
830		0	_aThorndike Press Large Print softcover romance and women's fiction.
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