The Wartime Book Club

The Wartime Book Club

By Kate Thompson

Genre:-Historical Fiction/War Story Fiction

Pages:-512

Publisher:-Hodder

Blurb:-Jersey, 1943. Once a warm and neighbourly community, now German soldiers patrol the cobbled streets, imposing a harsh rule on the people of the island.

 Grace La Mottee, the island's only librarian, is ordered to destroy books which threaten the new regime. Instead, she hides the stories away in secret. Along with her headstrong best friend, postwoman Bea Rose, she wants to fight back. So she forms the wartime book club: a lifeline, offering fearful islanders the joy and escapism of reading.

 But as the occupation drags on, the women's quiet acts of bravery become more perilous-and more important-than ever before. And, when tensions turn to violence, they are forced to face the true, terrible cost of resistance...

 Based on astonishing real events, The Wartime Book Club is a love letter to the power of books in the darkest of times-as well as a moving page-turner that brings to life the remarkable, untold story of an island at war.

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My Review:-Jersey, 1943. This book is based on real events. Grace La Mottee, a librarian ordered by the Germans to destroy all the books that didn't work for them, but Grace has other plans for the books, one that means the books will be saved and also safe. With the help of her friend and postwoman Bea Rose, they decide they need to hide the books. The women knew they had to fit a way to keep the books hidden, but also be available for others that wanted to save them. It wasn't long before Grace and Bea found a way to disguise the books within the pages of ordinary books that they were allowed to keep. There is a lot more to this story than books. The story shows how much courage that the people from the island had and were prepared to go to, to keep what was important to them. This book is full of emotion.