Review: The Bookbinder of Jericho

As soon as someone cracks the spine, a book develops a character all its own. What impresses or concerns one reader is never the same as what impresses or concerns all others. So, each book, once read, will fall open at a different place. Each book. once read, I realised, will have told a slightly different story.
Pip Williams has done it again! This book is like catnip for anyone who loves books. It has it all: set in Oxford in the bindery of Oxford University Press, we enter a world of books and libraries and learning. Set at the outbreak of the First World War, we are privy to the impact this has on everyone; the majority of able-bodied men are suddenly gone to war, leaving the women to carry the load, both physical and emotional. The suffragette movement is in full swing, and women from all walks of life can see a different world emerging from the wreckage of the war.
Williams has again written an engrossing historic novel that I couldn’t put down - highly recommended.

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