Public library and other stories

A richly inventive collection of stories about our enduring love of books from the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Women''s Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet

''Smith is dazzling in her daring. Sheer inventive power'' Observer

Why are books so powerful?
What do the books we read make of us?
And what does the vanishing of public libraries say about us?

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