voguegrl 's review for:

The Bookbinder by Pip Williams

4.0

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I really enjoyed this book. Our narrator Peggy is a bright, ambitious bindery worker during WWI. She works alongside Oxford University, but she is a Town and not a Gown. I find this time period very fascinating as the war, the pandemic, and the suffrage movement are all happening at once. We hear about all 3 in this book. There were many interesting characters, but my favorite was Peggy's twin sister Maude. She is written as someone on the spectrum, but I did not find her to be a caricature of such. I also really liked Bastiaan, the Belgian soldier severely injured during Germany's Belgian invasion. I did think the story was a bit long but worth it overall.

Thanks to Netgalley for the book to review.