'A splendid warm-hearted novel' - Rachel Hore 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.
