*A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller* 'Vickers sees with a clear eye
and writes with a light hand; she's a presence worth cherishing in
the ranks of modern novelists.' Philip Pullman In 1958, Sylvia
Blackwell, fresh from one of the new post-war Library Schools,
takes up a job as children's librarian in a run down library in the
market town of East Mole. Her mission is to fire the enthusiasm of
the children of East Mole for reading. But her love affair with the
local married GP, and her befriending of his precious daughter, her
neighbour's son and her landlady's neglected grandchild, ignite the
prejudices of the town, threatening her job and the very existence
of the library with dramatic consequences for them all. The
Librarian is a moving testament to the joy of reading and the power
of books to change and inspire us all. 'Underneath the delightful
patina of nostalgia for post-War England, there are stern and spiky
questions about why we are allowing our children to be robbed of
their heritage of story.' Frank Cottrell Boyce 'Vickers has a
formidable knack for laying open the human heart' Sunday Times
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