A Single Thread

Tracy Chevalier

ISBN 10: 0008153817 / ISBN 13: 9780008153816

Published by The Borough Press, 2019

About this Item

First edition, first impression UK hardback, 2019 The Borough Press. The book is in very good condition. The dustjacket is in very good condition and is not price clipped. Signed and inscribed by the author, "To Rose - Happy stitching Happy reading - Tracy Chevalier".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Single Thread
• Publisher: The Borough Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0008153817
• ISBN 13: 9780008153816
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

From the globally bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring

It is 1932, and the losses of the First World War are still keenly felt. 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…
 
Warm, vivid and beautifully orchestrated, A Single Thread reveals one of our finest modern writers at the peak of her powers.