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~ New Release - 2023
Ambitious and intelligent Peggy feels compelled to watch over her vulnerable twin sister Maude who works with her in the bindery at Oxford's University Press, but Peggy isn't as content with her position in life as Maude. It doesn't seem fair to her that the female students have an entire library at their disposal, but the girls making the books are forbidden from reading them. When refugees arrive from war-torn Belgium, Peggy starts to see the possibility of a new future where she could educate herself and exercise her intellect . . .
A story about knowledge, who creates it, who can access it, and what truths get lost in the process, The Bookbinder explores a rarely seen slice of history through a feminist perspective.
“Pip Williams' The Bookbinder fully inhabits the world of the bindery and it shows, there’s hardly a page out of place.” -- The Guardian