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Marc Koralnik |
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THE LITTLE WARTIME LIBRARY
A gripping and heart-wrenching page-turner that remembers one of the greatest resistance stories of the war
London, 1944. Clara Button is no ordinary librarian. While the world remains at war, in East London Clara has created the country's 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 women's 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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kate Thompson is an award-winning journalist, ghostwriter and novelist. She spent five years' working on national newspapers such as the Daily Express and Daily Mail, and also on all the major national woman's magazine titles. Over the past seven years, she has concentrated on writing ten fiction and non-fiction titles. Her debut novel, SECRETS OF THE SINGER GIRLS, was a Sunday Times bestseller in 2015, with first week sales of over 10,000. It has recently been optioned by Bandit Television. Kate's first non-fiction book, which uncovers the lives of extraordinary women of wartime East End, THE STEPNEY DOORSTEP SOCIETY, was published by Penguin (Michael Joseph) in February 2019 and reached number one in the history categories on Amazon. Kate is moving away from the saga genre with THE LITTLE WARTIME LIBRARY, and is already researching her next brilliant, historical novel.
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 women's 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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kate Thompson is an award-winning journalist, ghostwriter and novelist. She spent five years' working on national newspapers such as the Daily Express and Daily Mail, and also on all the major national woman's magazine titles. Over the past seven years, she has concentrated on writing ten fiction and non-fiction titles. Her debut novel, SECRETS OF THE SINGER GIRLS, was a Sunday Times bestseller in 2015, with first week sales of over 10,000. It has recently been optioned by Bandit Television. Kate's first non-fiction book, which uncovers the lives of extraordinary women of wartime East End, THE STEPNEY DOORSTEP SOCIETY, was published by Penguin (Michael Joseph) in February 2019 and reached number one in the history categories on Amazon. Kate is moving away from the saga genre with THE LITTLE WARTIME LIBRARY, and is already researching her next brilliant, historical novel.
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Published 2022-02-01 by Hodder & Stoughton |