About Bibliomaniac

Ever since I was a young girl who spent a lot of time in hospital, books have been my solace, my passion, my lifeline back to myself and my connection to the outside world. When I was nine, I asked my sister for a delicious hardback edition of George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss for Christmas. I had spied the leather-bound tome in our local newsagent (spoiler alert: it wasn't leather), and my sister managed to pull off a Christmas miracle to secure the funds (aka mum's wallet) where she bought the book that still sits on one of my bookshelves. I was a dyed-in-the-wool bibliophile before I read Eliot's epic, but this is such a wonderfully pervasive memory for me.

I'm not sure I fully understood the context of what I was reading, but I turned every page with a sense of wonder; as though something remarkable was happening. Why? Because something remarkable happened every time I read a book, as I was thrown between worlds and teleported through time to places that filled me with both terror and delight.

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Carly :)