TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thompson, Kate,
TI  - The Wartime Book Club
SN  - 9781399714952
PY  - 2024///
CY  - London, UK
PB  - Hodder & Stoughton
KW  - UK & IRL historical fiction
KW  - UK & IRL war fiction
N2  - Jersey, 1943. Once a warm and neighbourly community, now German soldiers patrol the cobbled streets, imposing a harsh rule on the people of the island. Grace La Mottee, the island's only librarian, is ordered to destroy books which threaten the new regime. Instead, she hides the stories away in secret. Along with her headstrong best friend, postwoman Bea Rose, she wants to fight back. So she forms the wartime book club: a lifeline, offering fearful islanders the joy
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