WW I, the men are called away, Peggy and her twin-sister work in the bookbinding department of the Oxford University Press, folding, cutting the pages, but forbidden to read the words and at night going home to the narrowboat on which they live. Peggy longs to be educated but women have no place in the university. It’s a real eye-opener into how those books we take for granted were made, everything done by hand. One of those reads where the pages seem to turn themselves.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 120 Spring 2026 ) |
