The Librarian

Published
May 2018
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General Fiction General Fiction
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400

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A charmingly subversive novel about a library in 1950s 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 connectionto 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?

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Nov 2018 Penguin (UK) ISBN 0241330238
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First Edition May 2018 Penguin (UK) ISBN 0241321735
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Apr 2018 -- Not Selected ISBN B076W8RCSF
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Apr 2019 Penguin ISBN 0241330254
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Apr 2019 Clipper Audiobooks ISBN B07QBQHR6H
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