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The Little Wartime Library

By: Kate Thompson
Narrated by: Sarah Durham
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London, 1944.

Clara Button is no ordinary librarian. While the world remains at war, in East London, Clara has created the country's only underground library, built over the railway tracks in the disused Bethnal Green tube station. Down here, a whole community thrives: with hundreds of bunk beds, a café and a theatre offering shelter from the bombs that fall above.

Along with her glamorous best friend and assistant librarian, Ruby Munroe, Clara ensures the library is the beating heart of life underground. But as the war drags on, the women's determination to remain strong in the face of adversity is tested to the limits when it seems it may come at the price of keeping those closest to them alive.

Based on true events, The Little Wartime Library is an inspiring and heart-wrenching story of life on the home front, and of the strength of courage required to fight for what you believe in.

©2022 Kate Thompson (P)2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited 20th Century Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Sagas Women's Fiction War England
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mostly based on truth and very believable. eye opener. makes one realize the importance of books.

realism at its best.

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As a retired librarian so much of this story resonated for me. The historical information around life in London and the Channel Islands was in incorporated in such a seamless and thoroughly accessible way that you couldn’t help but absorb this wonderfully entertaining novel. So beautifully narrated too.

Affirming and informative

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I loved this book from cover to cover. So richly written with characters so believable and warm. I could not put it down.

I especially loved the epilogue - the story behind the novel added such insight into a world well before my time yet one I could well imagine living through COVID. Congratulations The Little Wartime Library will become a classic fir all the right reasons.

Truly a captivating read

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