· Sylvia is a young librarian who moves into a cottage in East Mole and takes up a post as Children’s Librarian. She rents a cottage from Mrs Bird, and from that moment her life is linked with that of the Bird family, and with those of her neighbours in the village. She’s involved with the children, in particular clever Sam and shy, awkward www.doorway.ru: Linda Newbery. Salley Vickers was born in Liverpool, the home of her mother, and grew up as the child of parents in the British Communist Party. She won a state scholarship to St Paul’s Girl’s School and went on to read English at Newnham College Cambridge/5. It is and year old Sylvia arrives in East Mole to take up the post of Children’s Librarian. Keen to share her love of children’s literature with the local youngsters, Sylvia hopes to transform the dowdy, unloved section of the library into a welcoming hub for the children of this parochial village. But as we know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.4/5().
Vickers writes of relationships with undaunted clarity. Adam Phillips. Vickers lays bare the inner workings of one family, possibly every family, with an often disconcerting clarity. The Times on 'Cousins' The Librarian will wring the heart of anyone who fell in love with books as a child. It is a hymn to the power of children's literature. A t a time when library services are being reduced all over Britain, Salley Vickers's new novel, The Librarian, inspired by a 'remarkable' librarian whom she knew as a child, is testimony to the lifelong influence of childhood www.doorway.ru is set in the late s, when the Second World War was a recent memory, and success or failure in the eleven plus examination determined the future. Click to read more about The Librarian by Salley Vickers. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers.
A work of fiction that also reflects Salley Vicker’s own lifelong love of literature, The Librarian brims with references to favourite novels from childhood onwards (readers will appreciate the accompanying list of all the fiction mentioned in the book). Salley Vickers. 4, ratings reviews. A charmingly subversive novel about a library in s England, by the acclaimed author of The Cleaner of Chartres. Sylvia Blackwell, a young woman in her twenties, moves to East Mole, a quaint market town in middle England, to start a new job as a children's librarian. Set in the late s, in a small Wiltshire town, Salley Vickers’ enchanting ninth novel tells the story of year-old Sylvia Blackwell, who arrives in East Mole to take up the post of children.
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