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Lyons, Annie,

The air raid book club / Annie Lyons. - London : Headline Review, 2023. - 384 pages ; 24 cm

"London, 1938. Bookseller Gertie Bingham is facing difficult times, having just lost her beloved husband, Harry, and with a lingering sadness at never having been able to have a child of her own. Struggling to face running the bookshop she and Harry opened together, Gertie is preparing to sell up and move away when she is asked if she would be willing to take in a young Jewish refugee from Germany. Gertie is unsure and when sullen teenager Hedy Fischer arrives, Gertie fears she has nothing left to give the troubled girl. But when the German bombers come and the lights go out over London, Gertie and Hedy realise that joining forces will make them stronger, and that books have the power to bring young and old together and unite a community in need in its darkest hour. Inspired by a true story."--Publisher.

ISBN: 9781035401024 1035401029

Nat. Bib. No.: GBC383399 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 021039936 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
World War, 1939-1945--Great Britain--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Great Britain--History--George VI, 1936-1952--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
History
Historical fiction.

Dewey Class. No.: 823.92