It’s not just the books Alba craves, it’s standing inside a place that houses millions of them. Libraries are Alba’s chu — Menna van Praag, The House at the End of Hope Street
It’s not just the books Alba craves, it’s standing inside a place that houses millions of them. Libraries are Alba’s chu — Menna van Praag, The House at the End of Hope Street
It’s not just the books Alba craves, it’s standing inside a place that houses millions of them. Libraries are Alba’s chu — Menna van Praag, The House at the End of Hope Street
It’s not just the books Alba craves, it’s standing inside a place that houses millions of them. Libraries are Alba’s chu — Menna van Praag, The House at the End of Hope Street
It’s not just the books Alba craves, it’s standing inside a place that houses millions of them. Libraries are Alba’s chu — Menna van Praag, The House at the End of Hope Street
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It’s not just the books Alba craves, it’s standing inside a place that houses millions of them. Libraries are Alba’s churches, and the university library, containing one edition of every book ever published in England, is her cathedral.

— Menna van Praag, The House at the End of Hope Street
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