![]() Feeling obligated to take a book, the Queen borrows a novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett, intending to return it the following week when the bookmobile returns.Īlmost immediately, her life changes. Entering the mobile library to apologize for the din, the Queen meets Norman Seakins, a young man from the kitchen whose primary interest is in gay books and photography. ![]() There in these pages and between these covers she could go unrecognized.”Ĭha sing after her rowdy dog-pack one day, the Queen discovers them barking at a “removal-like van,” a bookmobile, parked outside the kitchen at Windsor. And she who had led a life apart now found that she craved it. ![]() It was anonymous it was shared it was common. ![]() There was something of that, she felt, to reading. “As a girl, one of greatest thrills had been on VE night when she and her sister had slipped out of the gates and mingled unrecognized with the crowds. ![]()
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