Multi-choice problem: Given the following context

I sat there feeling rather like a chappie I'd once read about in a book , who murdered another cove and hid the body under the dining-room table , and then had to be the life and soul of a dinner party, with *it* there all the time.

Are "book" and "it" the same?

Options:
A). no;
B). yes;
A:
A).