The Little Wartime Library by Kate Thompson

Author:Kate Thompson [THOMPSON, KATE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2023-02-21T00:00:00+00:00

I know Canadians to be warm-hearted and enlightened.

Yours sincerely,

A fellow librarian, Clara Button

She thought of dear Tubby. It was too late for him, but it wasn’t too late for Sparrow, Marie, Beatty and all the rest of the Tube Rats.

She labelled the letter, Chief Librarian, Public Library, Toronto.

“I’m heading to the post office,” Clara called to Ruby.

“Before you go…” Ruby held up a newspaper with a big chunk cut out from the middle, her face grimacing through the hole. “Just found it cut up in the reading room.”

“Racing pages again?”

Ruby nodded.

“And an article on Beauty Is Your Duty!”

“Oh for pity’s sake! What can our phantom paper snipper have against women making the best of themselves? We need to keep a closer eye on the reading room.”

A few minutes later, she strode past the café. For once, Dot didn’t look up and wave. She was frying liver, spatula in one hand, that book in the other. The last thing she saw as she emerged into the frosty December air was Mrs. Chumbley in the shelter office cubbyhole, where Clara could see the corner of a green book poking out from behind War Wounds and Fractures.

What had she unleashed on the women of Bethnal Green?

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