From the Library With Love
by Kate Thompson
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<div>Welcome to my library of interviews...<br><br>Librarians, bestselling authors and our wartime generation sharing their love of books, reading and some extraordinary stories .<br><br> #Hidden History #Forgotten women #Bibliotherapy #Libraries<br><br>INTRODUCTION<br><br>Welcome to From the Library With Love. A podcast for anyone whose life has been changed by reading. I’m Kate Thompson. <br><br>Wonderful, transformative things happen when you set foot in a library. In 2019 I uncovered the true story of a forgotten Underground library, built along the tracks of a Tube tunnel during the Blitz. As stories go, it was irresistible and the result was, The Little Wartime Library, my seventh novel.<br><br>Bethnal Green Public Library, where the novel is set was 100 years old in October 2022, and to celebrate the centenary of this grand old lady, funded by library philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, I set myself the challenge of interviewing 100 library workers. Speaking with one library worker