A Single Thread
Editorial HARPER COLLINS
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Mainland Spain
- Publisher HARPER COLLINS
- ISBN13 9780008153823
- ISBN10 0008153825
- Type BOOK
- Pages 352
- Published 2019
- Language English
- Bookbinding Paperback
A Single Thread
Editorial HARPER COLLINS
Do you want to pick it up at the bookstore?
Mainland Spain
Book details
It is 1932, and the losses of the First World War are still keenly felt.
Violet Speedwell, mourning for both her fiance 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...
Warm, vivid and beautifully orchestrated, A Single Thread reveals one of our finest modern writers at the peak of her powers.