A review by eileen_daly_boas
The Bookbinder by Pip Williams

4.0

It's a 3.5, but I'm rounding up. I thought I would enjoy the "life of a bookbinder at the Clarendon Press in WWI" aspect, and that was fine. I enjoyed most of the scenes that took place in the bindery overall. The "women's work during the war" was also pretty good - although I feel like I've read a lot of this kind of novel before. The class issues were done really well, I thought, and I was surprised by a few of the turns of the story.
The most interesting thing to me was really a very small part - at one point, the Belgian enclave of Elisabethville - a self-contained community to both house and shelter refugee Belgians, and also an armament factory - is mentioned and only comes up again one more time. Yet that was the story I wanted to read about. I did some research and really would like to know more.

so, an extra bump up for this novel for making me interested in something so that I went down a rabbit hole for a while.