One morning a librarian finds a reader who has been locked in overnight. She begins to talk to him, a one-way conversation full of sharp insight and quiet outrage. A quirky original diatribe, funny and insightful, against snobbish senior colleagues, an ungrateful and ignorant public and the structures of the Dewey Decimal System, and in defence of libraries and the art of reading. A delightful divertissement for the discerning bookworm...