My thoughts
I read this and listened to the audio. This book was excellent. A story to end all stories.
What would you do for love? What would you do for the person you loved?
Isabel lived with her father. He was a very rich man and intended for her to marry someone who would further enhance his fortune. But Isabel was in love with another. Isabel loved William with all of her heart. She told her father but he forbid her to ever see him again. Isabel was heartbroken.
This is a story of books and a woman who has a job of fixing the binding on books. When Lily Delaney started on her journey to find the books that this story is about she had no idea what was fixing to unleash around her. So much heartache and death. She would lose so much but didn't give up. She was determined to find the books with the letters hidden beneath their bindings. To find out what happened to the young lovers.
This book takes you on a journey. A long journey that has so much going on. It's a love story and a book about a book/books. It's two love stories in one. The one from the letters and the one Lily is so afraid of.
This was one of the best books I've read. It held my interest and kept me turning the pages. I wanted to know what happened to Isabel. To William. And to Issac. Of a Dr who just wanted to do what was right. This was a story that will stay with me a long time. It's that good.
Thank you St Martin's Press and Macmillan Audio for the ARCs.
5 stars.
About
Every book tells a story. This one tells a secret.
A young bookbinder begins a hunt for the truth when a confession hidden beneath the binding of a burned book reveals a story of forbidden love, lost fortune, and murder.
Lilian ("Lily") Delaney, apprentice to a master bookbinder in Oxford in 1901, chafes at the confines of her life. She is trapped between the oppressiveness of her father’s failing bookshop and still being an apprentice in a man’s profession. But when she’s given a burned book during a visit to a collector, she finds, hidden beneath the binding, a fifty-year-old letter speaking of love, fortune, and murder.
Lily is pulled into the mystery of the young lovers, a story of forbidden love, and discovers there are more books and more hidden pages telling their story. Lilian becomes obsessed with the story but she is not the only one looking for the remaining books and what began as a diverting intrigue quickly becomes a very dangerous pursuit.
Lily's search leads her from the eccentric booksellers of London to the private libraries of unscrupulous collectors and the dusty archives of society papers, deep into the heart of the mystery. But with sinister forces closing in, willing to do anything for the books, Lilian’s world begins to fall apart and she must decide if uncovering the truth is worth the risk to her own life.
* This stunning edition includes full-color designed endpapers, unique foiled front and back case stamps, and special interior design elements. While supplies last! *
A young bookbinder begins a hunt for the truth when a confession hidden beneath the binding of a burned book reveals a story of forbidden love, lost fortune, and murder.
Lilian ("Lily") Delaney, apprentice to a master bookbinder in Oxford in 1901, chafes at the confines of her life. She is trapped between the oppressiveness of her father’s failing bookshop and still being an apprentice in a man’s profession. But when she’s given a burned book during a visit to a collector, she finds, hidden beneath the binding, a fifty-year-old letter speaking of love, fortune, and murder.
Lily is pulled into the mystery of the young lovers, a story of forbidden love, and discovers there are more books and more hidden pages telling their story. Lilian becomes obsessed with the story but she is not the only one looking for the remaining books and what began as a diverting intrigue quickly becomes a very dangerous pursuit.
Lily's search leads her from the eccentric booksellers of London to the private libraries of unscrupulous collectors and the dusty archives of society papers, deep into the heart of the mystery. But with sinister forces closing in, willing to do anything for the books, Lilian’s world begins to fall apart and she must decide if uncovering the truth is worth the risk to her own life.
* This stunning edition includes full-color designed endpapers, unique foiled front and back case stamps, and special interior design elements. While supplies last! *
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