The Librarian
  • Published: 5 April 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241330258
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400

The Librarian

The Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller

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1 Nov 2018
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5 Apr 2018
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A charmingly subversive novel about a library in 1950s England, by the acclaimed author of The Cleaner of Chartres

Sylvia Blackwell, a young woman in her twenties, moves to East Mole, a quaint market town in middle England, to start a new job as a children's librarian. But the apparently pleasant town is not all it seems. Sylvia falls in love with an older man - but it's her connection to his precocious young daughter and her neighbours' son which will change her life and put them, the library and her job under threat.

How does the library alter the young children's lives and how do the children fare as a result of the books Sylvia introduces them to?
  • Published: 5 April 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241330258
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400
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Praise for The Librarian

The Librarian will wring the heart of anyone who fell in love with books as a child. It is a hymn to the power of children's literature...delightful

The Times

A nostalgic treat...involving and hopeful

Mail on Sunday

Excellent... a period tale of sentimental education, it's deliciously readable, with a clever epilogue zooming into the present day for a last gasp surprise

Daily Mail

No one can dig down into the shrouded recesses of the human heart quite as forensically as Vickers

Sunday Times

Quirky and charming

Love It!

This beautifully crafted novel is a tribute to the power of books

S Magazine, Sunday Express

Vickers lays bare the inner workings of one family, possibly every family, with an often disconcerting clarity

The Times on 'Cousins'

Vickers' real skill as a story teller is in allowing each distinct voice to contribute to a complete, or as complete as can be, picture of one family... the pace gathers, making for a deeply poignant climax

Financial Times on 'Cousins'

Vickers writes of relationships with undaunted clarity

Adam Phillips