The Little Wartime Library

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What works so well is that there is no guarantee of a happy ending for anyone, creating moments of deep emotion. Satisfying layers of depth Clara Button is a young widow and the librarian at a wholly underground library. There is a whole community which has sprung up in a disused underground station - a good place to hide when there are bombs falling up above which are destroying your community and killing your friends and family. Clara's best friend is Ruby, a girl who couldn't be more different from Clara if she tried. Despite their differences in personality, they are very close and it is their friendship which gets them both through. Both young women have been through trauma in their pasts and Ruby is still trying to help her mum deal with her abusive second husband. Kate Thompson редуваше лекотата на общуването между всички герои със страшните моменти на обреченост. Толкова много мили персонажи загинаха безпричинно и заради това, че бяха на неподходящо място в неточния момент. Но както винаги живите трябва да продължат напред , дори ако едва преодоляват загубата, спомена или болката!

The characters are the highlight of this delightful book. Clara, a war widow, had every reason to be bitter. She disregards her ‘imposed upon’ obligations and her losses and channels her energy into providing equal opportunity books to everyone in the secret community. Ruby has a big heart and puts others before herself, desperately wanting to hide her inner unhappiness and loss. You’ll be in awe of the sense of community the author creates and come to love many of the library patrons. The Little Wartime Library by Kate Thompson is a wonderful WWII-era historical fiction saga that is based on true events and is so gripping and unique, that I can guarantee nothing else will keep your attention while you are immersed into this book. The author’s note at the end was as enjoyable as the novel! This is essential reading for bibliophiles around the world. When war was over, I missed life underground, and even now when I go to Bethnal Green and see the Tube sign, I feel a warmth spread over my chest. To others, it’s a transport network; to me, it was my home.”Metal triple bunks sleeping up to 5,000 people stretched three-quarters of a mile up the eastbound tunnel. There was a shelter theatre, which hosted opera and ballet, a cafe, doctor’s quarters and a creche, which enabled women to go out to work. But here’s the best part: there was a library, too!

Words cannot describe how brilliant The Little Wartime Library is. This novel captured my attention and my heart.Young childless widow Clara Button is doing her bit for the war effort, running Britain’s only Underground Shelter Library.... Our barbarous foes may be hell-bent on burning London to the ground, but beneath the city’s surface, Mrs. Button calmly carries on stamping books and ensuring everyone has a thumping good read to take their mind off the bombs." The story touches on the Occupation of Jersey. While fleeting, this is an intense part of the book. There are a variety of stories and people to empathise with throughout. An over riding theme of men being the rulers and women the lesser species is prevalent and necessary to the story as it was the way of the times. In September 1940 after a bomb damaged their local library branch, librarian Clara Button and Ruby Munroe created the country’s only underground library in the unfinished Bethnal Green tube station, 78 feet below ground - the only place where the bombs couldn’t be heard. Their aim was to offer solace and foster a joy of reading amongst the East Enders.

The Little Wartime Library, is a book framed by author’s message and notes as well as modern-day prologue and epilogue. The heart of the story is set during WWII era London during the devastating days of bombing. Right when it seems the most nonsensical time to put time and resources into a lending library, theater, or music, is exactly the time to do it and they did. People needed this library and the determined help of Clara the Librarian more than ever.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. During the first week of the blitz, the Bethnal Green library was destroy, due to the war, construction of the Bethnal Green tube station had stopped and the vast empty space wasn’t being used. Despite losing her mentor, Clara Button and her assistant Ruby Munroe open an underground library and a sanctuary in London's East End.

Goodreads е постигнала изключително висок рейтинг! Ако някой не може да си представи какво може да направи една война с човешката природа; до какво може да доведе липсата на човечност у Хомо Сапиенс и как четенето на книги от децата ни може да спре възможността им сами да мислят и преценяват света - нека прочете The Little Wartime Library. Деца са бъдещето ни ! А библиотеките и училищата са мястото, където ще го направят светло! За да не позволяват някой да мисли вместо тях и да ги обрича с изкривени коментари на действителността! One of the things I loved about this book, was the author’s exploration of what “one” person can achieve when faced with hardship. As the war dragged on, the women's determination to remain strong in the face of adversity is tested to the limits, when it ‘seems’ it might have come at the price of keeping those closest to them alive.History isn’t about dates and battlefields, leaders, and royalty. It’s about ordinary people getting on with the business of living, in spite of such unforgiving odds. And somehow in the process always managing to hold hard to hope. Sometimes it only takes a glance at the title to know that herein lies a soulmatch book. Library love, WWII London underground community, and the resourceful spirit of a pair of women librarians and the community of the Bethnal Green underground tugged at my heart and left only satisfaction in their wake.