When I tell people I work in a library, they often ask me if I "read books all day". Rather than replying "If I worked in a restaurant would I eat dinner all day?" I tend to start explaining what busy, buzzing places libraries are these days and how, between author events, computer sessions, baby rhyme times, homework clubs and helping all those customers find the books and information they need, it's as much as I can do to get all those lovely new books on to the shelves, let alone read any of them!
Happily for me, though, I do manage to splice some reading into my day- I travel to work by train and use that time to escape into a book. The problem I had with The Mesmerist was I found myself unwilling to return to reality when I arrived at the station and would be trying to negotiate the rush-hour escalator scrum with my eyes still on the page. One one occasion I only avoided getting run over on Charing Cross Road because I happened to reach the end of a chapter in the nick of time. So be warned- it's a gripping yarn, please do not operate machinery while reading this book.
Cast and crew at 'The Woman in Black' join the giant reading group!
Barbara Ewing met the company and crew at the Fortune Theatre and presented them with copies of The Mesmerist. Library user Betty Benjamin was on hand to tell them what reading groups are all about.
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I found it a most interesting book. Life was tough for woman in those days and the social divide enormous. The heroine Cordelia endures a lot of hardship but never gives up. I read it on the train to work and almost missed my stop.
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