內容簡介
內容簡介 1958年，Sylvia Blackwell剛從學校畢業，她在學校念的專業就是圖書館管理，畢業後順理成章在一個名叫East Mole的小鎮找到了一個圖書館員的工作，她除了管理圖書館，還身擔一個重責大任，也就是點燃當地孩童對於閱讀的熱情。但她和當地醫生、醫生女兒、房東太太不受寵的孫子等人的關係，似乎讓她的工作變得更困難，隱藏的危機不僅威脅著她的工作，還有East Mole圖書館存在的必要性……她是否可以戰勝這一切，將閱讀帶來的純粹和喜悅再次傳達給所有人呢？這個溫暖的故事將讓你重拾對於閱讀的信心、再次見識書籍的力量，並且讓人對於人生的茫然更能從容面對。A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller'Vickers sees with a clear eye and writes with a light hand; she's a presence worth cherishing in the ranks of modern novelists.' Philip PullmanIn 1958, Sylvia Blackwell, fresh from one of the new post-war Library Schools, takes up a job as children's librarian in a run down library in the market town of East Mole.Her mission is to fire the enthusiasm of the children of East Mole for reading. But her love affair with the local married GP, and her befriending of his precious daughter, her neighbour's son and her landlady's neglected grandchild, ignite the prejudices of the town, threatening her job and the very existence of the library with dramatic consequences for them all.The Librarian is a moving testament to the joy of reading and the power of books to change and inspire us all.'Underneath the delightful patina of nostalgia for post-War England, there are stern and spiky questions about why we are allowing our children to be robbed of their heritage of story.' Frank Cottrell Boyce'Vickers has a formidable knack for laying open the human heart' Sunday Times
