Andrée Boddington

2023 | hb 105pp | ISBN: 978-1-914002-33-5

On this ordinary but particular Wednesday, an observer standing in the town square would see a sprightly, mid-forty year-old, well-dressed man in country clothes – tweed jacket, tweed cap and grey flannels – approaching the library, a good looking building on one side of the square and opposite the imposing town hall and council offices on the other. Who was this man? Most men going into the library at that time of the day were older or retired. The gentleman was Frank Bates....

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