A single thread /
Chevalier, Tracy,
A single thread / Tracy Chevalier. - London : The Borough Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2019. - 340 pages ; 23 cm.
Violet Speedwell, mourning for both her fiancé and her brother and regarded by society as a ?surplus woman? unlikely to marry, resolves to escape her suffocating mother and strike out alone. A new life awaits her in Winchester. Yes, it is one of draughty boarding-houses and sidelong glances at her naked ring finger from younger colleagues; but it is also a life gleaming with independence and opportunity. Violet falls in with the broderers, a disparate group of women charged with embroidering kneelers for the Cathedral, and is soon entwined in their lives and their secrets. As the almost unthinkable threat of a second Great War appears on the horizon Violet collects a few secrets of her own that could just change everything...
9780008153823 (paperback) 9780008153816 (hardback)
GBB9B5146 bnb
019452244 Uk
1900-1999
Women--England--Fiction.
Female friendship--Fiction.
Needleworkers--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Secrecy--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
Nineteen thirties--Fiction.
Great Britain.
Winchester (England)--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--20th century--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Fiction.
History.
Domestic fiction.
813.6
A single thread / Tracy Chevalier. - London : The Borough Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2019. - 340 pages ; 23 cm.
Violet Speedwell, mourning for both her fiancé and her brother and regarded by society as a ?surplus woman? unlikely to marry, resolves to escape her suffocating mother and strike out alone. A new life awaits her in Winchester. Yes, it is one of draughty boarding-houses and sidelong glances at her naked ring finger from younger colleagues; but it is also a life gleaming with independence and opportunity. Violet falls in with the broderers, a disparate group of women charged with embroidering kneelers for the Cathedral, and is soon entwined in their lives and their secrets. As the almost unthinkable threat of a second Great War appears on the horizon Violet collects a few secrets of her own that could just change everything...
9780008153823 (paperback) 9780008153816 (hardback)
GBB9B5146 bnb
019452244 Uk
1900-1999
Women--England--Fiction.
Female friendship--Fiction.
Needleworkers--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Secrecy--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
Nineteen thirties--Fiction.
Great Britain.
Winchester (England)--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--20th century--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Fiction.
History.
Domestic fiction.
813.6
