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02974aam a2200505 i 4500 001 1781189090E311EEA8442A1A39ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231202011859 008 230609t20232023meub d 000 1 eng 010 $a 2023026714 020 $a 9798885793780 (large print : softcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1382340583 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d R$L $d SO$ $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 10 $a PR6123.I55269 $b B66 2023b 082 00 $a 823/.92 $2 23/eng/20230609 100 1 $a Williams, Pip, $d 1969- $e author. 245 14 $a The bookbinder / $c Pip Williams. 250 $a Large print edition. 260 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c 2023. 300 $a 651 pages (large print) : $b map ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "It is 1914, and as the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, women must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy and Maude, twin sisters who live on a narrowboat in Oxford and work in the bindery at the university press. Ambitious, intelligent Peggy has been told for most of her life that her job is to bind the books, not read them-but as she folds and gathers pages, her mind wanders to the opposite side of Walton Street, where the female students of Oxford's Somerville College have a whole library at their fingertips. Maude, meanwhile, wants nothing more than what she has: to spend her days folding the pages of books in the company of the other bindery girls. She is extraordinary but vulnerable, and Peggy feels compelled to watch over her. Then refugees arrive from the war-torn cities of Belgium, sending ripples through the Oxford community and the sisters' lives. Peggy begins to see the possibility of another future where she can educate herself and use her intellect, not just her hands. But as war and illness reshape her world, her love for a Belgian soldier-and the responsibility that comes with it-threaten to hold her back." -- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Women bookbinders $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Twins $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Sisters $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Bookbinding $v Fiction. 650 0 $a World War, 1914-1918 $z England $v Fiction. 650 0 $a World War, 1914-1918 $x Refugees $z Belgium $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Large type books. 651 0 $a Oxford (England) $x History $y 20th century $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Large print books. $2 lcgft 941 $a 11 945 $a lpt 952 $l RKPA371 $d 20240601011547.0 952 $l FGPD194 $d 20240515011737.0 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409045128.0 952 $l ZBPE245 $d 20240210011536.0 952 $l DBPE173 $d 20240111011228.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20240106010116.0 952 $l YTPG232 $d 20240104011203.0 952 $l TFPI826 $d 20240104011056.0 952 $l SHPC094 $d 20231219010552.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20231202013700.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20231202012513.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1781189090E311EEA8442A1A39ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search