Description
Product ID: | 9780008153847 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | A Single Thread |
Authors: | Author: Tracy Chevalier |
Page Count: | 400 |
Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction, Historical fiction, Hampshire, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating FROM THE GLOBALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING‘Bittersweet … dazzling’ Guardian‘Deeply pleasurable … the ending made me cry’ The Times‘Told with a wealth of detail and narrative intensity’ Penelope Lively FROM THE GLOBALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING‘Bittersweet … dazzling’ Guardian‘Deeply pleasurable … the ending made me cry’ The Times‘Told with a wealth of detail and narrative intensity’ Penelope LivelyViolet is 38.The First World War took everything from her. Her brother, her fiancé – and her future. She is now considered a ‘surplus woman’.But Violet is also fiercely independent and determined. Escaping her suffocating mother, she moves to Winchester to start a new life –a change that will require courage, resilience and acts of quiet rebellion. And when whispers of another world war surface, she must live with a secret that could change everything… |
Imprint Name: | The Borough Press |
Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2020-10-15 |