... Tracy Chevalier's new novel A Single Thread:
“It is 1932, and the losses of the First World War are still keenly felt. Violet Speedwell, mourning 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 ...”
To be published in September.
Oh this does sound good and ticks lots of boxes. Thanks for highlighting it, Karen! Although, with the last traces of snow still to melt here in Ontario, I'm not too anxious to think about autumn.
Posted by: Cosy Books | 22 March 2019 at 12:04 PM
I will consider this at a later date; at the moment I am totally underwhelmed by Threads of Life. I thought that it had been self-published at the start but it seems that it simply lacked a proof-reader and an editor. I shall stick with it but I am not enamoured.
Posted by: Toffeeapple | 22 March 2019 at 07:37 PM
Over on Twitter Tracy is posting photos of some of the kneelers....that will have to satisfy me until September!
#WinchesterMedallions
Posted by: Fran H-B | 23 March 2019 at 07:04 AM
Looking forward to this one..
Posted by: Alexandra Macgregor | 26 March 2019 at 02:57 AM
I too am looking forward to another story from Tracy Chevalier having read all of her books since Girl With A Pearl Earring. Remarkable Creatures being a favourite as I learned so much about that period in time in Lyme Regis and Mary Anning who was the 'remarkable' in the story for me. I had the privilege of listening to Tracy talk at a Brisbane Writers' Festival in Australia some years ago. What a lovely person she is - her care for others as well as our effect on this planet really came through.
Posted by: Paulette | 10 April 2019 at 11:42 PM