Description
| Product ID: | 9780749029005 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Winter Dress |
| Subtitle: | Two women separated by centuries drawn together by one beautiful silk dress |
| Authors: | Author: Lauren Chater |
| Subjects: | Historical fiction, Historical fiction |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Two women separated by centuries but connected by one beautiful silk dress. TWO WOMEN SEPARATED BY CENTURIES, THEIR LIVES DRAWN TOGETHER BY A BEAUTIFUL SILK DRESSTextiles historian Jo Baaker returns to the Dutch island where she was born, to investigate the provenance of a valuable seventeenth-century silk dress retrieved from a sunken shipwreck. Her research leads her to Anna Tesseltje, a poor Amsterdam laundress who served on the fringes of the Dutch court.But how did Anna come to possess such a precious dress? Jo is convinced the truth lies hidden between its folds, but as she gets closer to Anna''s history, haunting details of her own past emerge. |
| Imprint Name: | Allison & Busby |
| Publisher Name: | Allison & Busby |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-10-20 |
