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boundsie 's review for:
The Bookbinder of Jericho
by Pip Williams
I very much enjoyed this novel, as it is at once historical fiction and a deeply feminism narrative, one that draws you in to the story. The descriptions are strong and one can easily imagine a wartime Oxford, as so little has changed. It has a strong social voice, as we watch Peggy’s work in the Press — so valuable and yet so little valued — and her enduring consciousness of the barriers between herself and the education she craves and deserves. Williams doesn’t preach; she illustrates and juxtaposes, and in the recreated events of the war, she explores a narrative that wasn’t told by contemporaries, but might have been as important as Vera Brittain’s had it been written by a real Peggy.