The Little Wartime Library: A gripping, heart-wrenching WW2 page-turner based on real events
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By Kate Thompson
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London, 1944.
Clara Button is no ordinary librarian. While the world remains at war, in East London Clara has created the country’s only underground library, built over the tracks in the disused Bethnal Green tube station. Down here a secret community thrives: with thousands of bunk beds, a nursery, a café and a theatre offering shelter, solace and escape from the bombs that fall above.
Along with her glamorous best friend and library assistant Ruby Munroe, Clara ensures the library is the beating heart of life underground. But as the war drags on, the women’s determination to remain strong in the face of adversity is tested to the limits when it seems it may come at the price of keeping those closest to them alive.
Based on true events, The Little Wartime Library is a gripping and heart-wrenching page-turner that remembers one of the greatest resistance stories of the war.
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A fantastic read. A book about life and community during Wartime. We got immersed in the story and involved in lives of the people. We loved the quotes from librarians. It really made you think about what life must have been like in Bethnal Green in World War II, but it also made us think about what life must be like now for the people caught up in wartime.
