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The Library of Leaving (Large Print Edition)

The Library of Leaving (Large Print Edition)

Dunlay, Emily

Hardcover

General FictionHistorical Fiction

PREORDER - Expected ship date September 23, 2026

ISBN10: 142054022X
ISBN13: 9781420540222
Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print
Published: Sep 23 2026
Language: English

From the author of Teddy, a dazzling historical novel about an American librarian in 1920s Switzerland who must face the truth of decisions she made to survive during the First World War.


In the wake of the Great War, American Helen Fox lives a solitary life in Switzerland as a librarian, cataloguing books left as bequests by diplomats and other expatriates. Bookish and buttoned up, Helen is shocked when she receives a package that hints at her far more colorful past: it's a draft chapter of a novel written by a man she knew intimately during the war--a soldier she nursed at a camp in the Alps for wounded Allied troops. Though he claims his book is fiction, Helen is afraid of what it might reveal about who she used to be, really, and whose side she might have been on. ...

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