Name: Salley Vickers - The Librarian (2nd Hand Paperback)
Brand: Campsie Books
SKU: B001410
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Salley Vickers - The Librarian (2nd Hand Paperback)

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Synopsis

A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller.

A charmingly subversive novel about a library in 1950's England, by the acclaimed author of The Cleaner of Chartres.

Sylvia Blackwell, a young woman in her twenties, moves to East Mole, a quaint market town in middle England, to start a new job as a children's librarian. But the apparently pleasant town is not all it seems. Sylvia falls in love with an older man - but it's her connection to his precocious young daughter and her neighbours' son which will change her life and put them, the library and her job under threat.

How does the library alter the young children's lives and how do the children fare as a result of the books Sylvia introduces them to?

Details

Format : Standard, Thick 2nd Hand Paperback.
Condition : Good
Category : Fiction - Modern Mainstream Fiction
Published : 2018 (Penguin)
ISBN : 9780241330234
SKU : B001410
PPC : SP350gm.
RRP : £8.99
Quantity Available : 1 only.

External Reviews

"The Librarian will wring the heart of anyone who fell in love with books as a child. It is a hymn to the power of children's literature . . . delightful" - The Times.

'A nostalgic treat . . . involving and hopeful.' - Mail on Sunday.

'Excellent . . . a period tale of sentimental education, it's deliciously readable, with a clever epilogue zooming into the present day for a last gasp surprise.' - Daily Mail.

'No one can dig down into the shrouded recesses of the human heart quite as forensically as Vickers.' - Sunday Times.

'Vickers writes of relationships with undaunted clarity.' - Adam Phillips.

'Quirky and charming.' - Love It!.

'This beautifully crafted novel is a tribute to the power of books.' - Sunday Express.

The Author

Salley Vickers is a British novelist whose works include Miss Garnet's Angel, Mr. Golightly's Holiday, The Other Side of You and Where Three Roads Meet, a retelling of the Oedipus myth to Sigmund Freud in the last months of his life. The Librarian published in 2018 includes biographical information in Author's Notes.