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A review by tonyriver
The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
5.0
I loved this book. Set in the same milieu as the Dictionary of lost words it has a very light crossover - they are both stories about words and books in the same era after all. However this time we are in a bookbinders at Oxford Press. These people have a hard life and the war has made it so much worse.
The cast of characters are inspired and delightful. Complex and difficult at times they create a strong and durable defense against most of what the war throws there way. The story telling, the rhythm of the writing, the detail are all just right.
I loved the story behind bookbinding that we readers mostly ignorant of, and of course mostly we read paperbacks and on devices these days, so binding as described here is not in our faces.
This book is wonderful and of course is highly recommended.
The cast of characters are inspired and delightful. Complex and difficult at times they create a strong and durable defense against most of what the war throws there way. The story telling, the rhythm of the writing, the detail are all just right.
I loved the story behind bookbinding that we readers mostly ignorant of, and of course mostly we read paperbacks and on devices these days, so binding as described here is not in our faces.
This book is wonderful and of course is highly recommended.