''A warm and tender tale about the power and healing of friendship and community and the magic of books'' - Ruth Hogan
As the bombs began to fall, the book club kept their hopes alive...The most emotional, uplifting and captivating story of wartime London and the extraordinary power of books to shine a light and draw people together in the darkest of days, inspired by true events.London, 1938. Bookseller
Gertie Bingham is facing difficult times, having just lost her beloved husband, Harry, and with a lingering sadness at never having been able to have a child of her own. Struggling to face running the bookshop she and Harry opened together, Gertie is preparing to sell up and move away when she is asked if she would be willing to take in a young Jewish refugee from Germany. Gertie is unsure and when sullen teenager
Hedy Fischer arrives, Gertie fears she has nothing left to give the troubled girl.
