A review by adele_courge
The Bookbinder by Pip Williams

5.0

This immediately became one my favorite books ! I'd really enjoyed The Dictionary of Lost Words but this touched me on another level. My different is not the same as Peggy's different but I related to her so strongly, the good and the bad, the happy and the sad. Maude is one of the most beautiful representation of autism I've read in fiction. And Tilda, beautiful, fierce, kind, queer Tilda. So many secondary characters moved me. I loved the History capital h and the feminism woven thoughout all these personal stories. I've cried several times, my heart broke and my heart sang and I will carry these characters and this world with me for a while.