It's been ages since I updated this blog. My reading has been very sporadic. This book has been with me for ages and I finally completed it. Here goes my thoughts on that.
This book is about a young woman working in a book bindery in the year 1914 when war erupts and men are drawn to fight for their country. Peggy and Maude are twin sisters who work in the bindery, sorting pages. Peggy collects damaged pages binds them and sneaks them into the narrow boat where they live in Oxford. Peggy is intelligent and wants to pursue education if and when she gets the chance. She nurses the ambition to attend college and is delighted when she gets access to the library in Sommerville college.
However, she feels compelled to watch over her sister Maude. Soon refugees arrive in train loads from Belgium and new people arrive in the lives of the sisters. Peggy finds love and see a possible future with a Belgian soldier and also a way to educate herself.
This novel is an exploration of lives during the war and what women went through in those times in pursuit of knowledge.
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