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Gladstone's Library
Novelist Melissa Harrison on the joy of 'sleeping with books' at Gladstone's Library, the only residential library in the UK.
Novelist Melissa Harrison on the joy of 'sleeping with books' at Gladstone's Library in North Wales, the only residential library in the UK.
2/5 Melissa explains why the building allows her to sink into a state of uninterrupted concentration, allowing a thread of thought to persist not only over hours but days.
Producer Clare Walker.
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