When Heaven comes knocking, far too interested in her charges, she and her assistant Brevity must gear up to protect the Library from Heaven and Hell. That’s the way of things here while she works off her soul debt. Demon patrons have to be kept in line, rogue characters brought back top their books, clean and tidy. Here, the current librarian Claire Hadley keeps track of the books begun, but never finished. Welcome to the Library of the Unwritten, nestled inside (but not a part of) Hell. This, of course, is a buggered pain in the arse.’ It is a story’s natural ambition to wake up and start telling itself to the world. Left abandoned too long and given the right stimulation, a book goes wrong in the head. No story, written or unwritten, is static. The Unwritten Wing of the Library, for all its infinite magic and mystery, is in some ways a futile project. ‘Stories want to change, and it is a librarian’s job to preserve them that’s the natural order of things.
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