A single thread / Tracy Chevalier.
Publication details: London : The Borough Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2019.Description: 340 pages ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780008153823 (paperback)
- 9780008153816 (hardback)
- 813.6 23
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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...