TY  - BOOK
AU  - Williams,Pip
TI  - The bookbinder of Jericho
SN  - 9781922806628
U1  - A823.4 23/eng/20230327
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Boon Wurrung Country, South Melbourne, VIC
PB  - Affirm Press
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Refugees
KW  - Belgium
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Twins
KW  - Sisters
KW  - Bookbinding
KW  - Women bookbinders
KW  - Women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Oxford (England)
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - War fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Adult fiction
KW  - Print
N1  - Includes Book Club questions; Includes bibliographical references
N2  - What is lost when knowledge is withheld? In 1914, when the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, it is the women who must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy and Maude, twin sisters who work in the bindery at Oxford University Press in Jericho. Peggy is intelligent, ambitious and dreams of going to Oxford University, but for most of her life she has been told her job is to bind the books, not read them. Maude, meanwhile, wants nothing more than what she has. She is extraordinary but vulnerable. Peggy needs to watch over her. When refugees arrive from the devastated cities of Belgium, it sends ripples through the community and through the sisters' lives. Peggy begins to see the possibility of another future where she can use her intellect and not just her hands, but as war and illness reshape her world, it is love, and the responsibility that comes with it, that threaten to hold her back
ER  -