Your Complete Library Record by Camilla Macpherson
How a Library Changed My Life was a writing competition held by the European Cultural Foundation in Spring 2024 as part of The Europe Challenge programme for libraries and communities. This is a winning story selected from nearly 300 submissions across 47 countries, each showcasing the life-changing impact of libraries.
About the Author
Camilla Macpherson (b. 1977) is one of six winners of the How a Library Changed My Life writing competition, run in 2024 by the European Cultural Foundation. A UK-based writer, her novel, Pictures at an Exhibition, was published by Random House in 2012. It has since been translated into Dutch, German, and Polish. Camilla recently spent five years living and working in The Hague, the Netherlands. Since her return to London, she has been writing a historical crime novel set in war-time Holland.
