Summary
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 studying at 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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922930484 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1922930482 |
| Author: | Pip Williams |
| Publisher: | Affirm Press |
| Imprint: | Affirm Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 28 March 2023 |
| Weight: | 690g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm |
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About The Author
Pip Williams
Pip Williams was born in London, grew up in Sydney, and now lives in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia with her family and an assortment of animals. She has spent most of her working life as a social researcher, studying what keeps us well and what helps us thrive, and she is the author of One Italian Summer, a memoir of her family’s travels in search of the good life, which was published by Affirm Press to wide acclaim. Her first novel, The Dictionary of Lost Words, based on her original research in the Oxford English Dictionary archives, was published in 2020 and became an international bestseller. The Bookbinder of Jericho is her second novel, a companion to The Dictionary of Lost Words, and again combines her talent for historical research and beautiful storytelling.
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