The Little Wartime Library

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2022
Edition: First Edition

Description: 480 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: A splendid warm-hearted novel - Rachel HoreLondon, 1944.Clara Button is no ordinary librarian. While the world remains at war, in East London Clara has created the countrys only underground library, built over the tracks in the disused Bethnal Green tube station. Down here a secret community thrives: with thousands of bunk beds, a nursery, a café and a theatre offering shelter, solace and escape from the bombs that fall above.Along with her glamorous best friend and library assistant Ruby Munroe, Clara ensures the library is the beating heart of life underground. But as the war drags on, the womens 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 a gripping and heart-wrenching page-turner that remembers one of the greatest resistance stories of the war

ISBN: 9781529395402