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1528886399
A single thread.
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Publication year: 2019
Language: English
Media class: Large print
Publisher: Rearsby: Lamplight Large Print Books, 2019.
ISBN: 9781528886390 (pbk.): £19.50
Notes:
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.
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391 pages (large print).
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Another intricate tale from one of my favourite authors.
08/10/21
East Riding
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