The Librarian

The Librarian by Salley Vickers. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780241321737.

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 childrens librarian. But the apparently pleasant town is not all it seems. Sylvia falls in love with an older man - but its 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 childrens lives and how do the children fare as a result of the books Sylvia introduces them to?