'Underneath the delightful patina of nostalgia for post-War England, there are stern and spiky questions about why we are allowing our children to be robbed of their heritage of story. A charmingly subversive novel about a library in 1950s England, by the acclaimed author of The Cleaner of Chartres. After a spell helping out at her local Boots lending library, she took a position as Assistant Librarian in Swindon. The Librarian is a moving testament to the joy of reading and the power of books to change and inspire us all. The Librarian The Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller Salley Vickers Extract 1 Sylvia Blackwell was just twenty- four when in 1958 she took up the post of Children’s Librarian in East Mole. The Librarian Salley Vickers The Librarian The Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller Paperback Shop Now Summary A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller Vickers sees with a clear eye and writes with a light hand shes a presence worth cherishing in the ranks of modern novelists. The Librarian : Salley Vickers : 9780241330234 : Blackwell's Home Books Fiction Fiction and Related items Fiction: general and literary Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary Book preview slide 1 to 2 of 2 The Librarian Salley Vickers 1st paperback ed Paperback () Save 0.51 i RRP 12.73 12. But her love affair with the local married GP, and her befriending of his precious daughter, her neighbour's son and her landlady's neglected grandchild, ignite the prejudices of the town, threatening her job and the very existence of the library with dramatic consequences for them all. Her mission is to fire the enthusiasm of the children of East Mole for reading.

She has worked as a teacher of children with special needs, a university teacher of literature and a psychoanalyst. Salley Vickers is the author of many novels, including Miss Garnets Angel, The Cleaner of Chartres and Cousins.

'Vickers sees with a clear eye and writes with a light hand she's a presence worth cherishing in the ranks of modern novelists.' Philip Pullman In 1958, Sylvia Blackwell, fresh from one of the new post-war Library Schools, takes up a job as children's librarian in a run down library in the market town of East Mole. The Librarian is a moving testament to the joy of reading and the power of books to change and inspire us all.

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