The bookbinder of Jericho / Pip Williams.
Publication details: Boon Wurrung Country ; South Melbourne, VIC : Affirm Press, 2023.Description: 438 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781922806628
- Book binder of Jericho
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Refugees -- Belgium -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Historical fiction
- Twins -- Fiction
- Sisters -- Fiction
- Bookbinding -- Fiction
- Women bookbinders -- Fiction
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction
- Women -- Social conditions -- Fiction
- Oxford (England) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Oxford (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- A823.4 23/eng/20230327
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Historical | WIL | Available | 071550 |
Includes Book Club questions.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
