A Single Thread, by Tracy Chevalier
Type: Hardcover
Condition: Used, Great. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Light rubbing wear on the dust cover. No folded pages, no notes, no underlines or markings on the pages.
Details: A Single Thread, author Tracy Chevalier
ISBN: 978-0-525-55824-8
Pages: 321
Published: 2019
A powerful, moving story of a woman
coming into her own at the dawn
of the Second World War, from the
internationally bestselling writer
1932, Since the Great War took
both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet
Speedwell has become a "surplus woman"
one of a generation destined to remain unmarried
after the war killed so many young men. Yet
Violet cannot reconcile herself to a future spent
caring for her grieving, embittered mother. Set-
ting out for Winchester, home to one of Eng-
land's grandest cathedrals, she finds both a job
and a room of her own in a boardinghouse.
Violet also falls in with the broderers, a dis-
parate group of women charged with embroi-
dering cushions and kneelers for the cathedral,
and is soon entwined in their community and
their secrets. She finds friendship in her new
circle, fulfillment in the work they create, and-
having long ago dismissed the possibility--love.
As the almost unthinkable threat of a second
Great War appears on the horizon, Violet must
decide what she is willing to risk to protect the
life she has fought to make for herself.
Vivid, satisfying, and beautifully orches-
trated, A Single Thread reveals one of our finest
modern writers at the peak of her powers.
Type: Hardcover
Condition: Used, Great. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Light rubbing wear on the dust cover. No folded pages, no notes, no underlines or markings on the pages.
Details: A Single Thread, author Tracy Chevalier
ISBN: 978-0-525-55824-8
Pages: 321
Published: 2019
A powerful, moving story of a woman
coming into her own at the dawn
of the Second World War, from the
internationally bestselling writer
1932, Since the Great War took
both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet
Speedwell has become a "surplus woman"
one of a generation destined to remain unmarried
after the war killed so many young men. Yet
Violet cannot reconcile herself to a future spent
caring for her grieving, embittered mother. Set-
ting out for Winchester, home to one of Eng-
land's grandest cathedrals, she finds both a job
and a room of her own in a boardinghouse.
Violet also falls in with the broderers, a dis-
parate group of women charged with embroi-
dering cushions and kneelers for the cathedral,
and is soon entwined in their community and
their secrets. She finds friendship in her new
circle, fulfillment in the work they create, and-
having long ago dismissed the possibility--love.
As the almost unthinkable threat of a second
Great War appears on the horizon, Violet must
decide what she is willing to risk to protect the
life she has fought to make for herself.
Vivid, satisfying, and beautifully orches-
trated, A Single Thread reveals one of our finest
modern writers at the peak of her powers.
Type: Hardcover
Condition: Used, Great. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Light rubbing wear on the dust cover. No folded pages, no notes, no underlines or markings on the pages.
Details: A Single Thread, author Tracy Chevalier
ISBN: 978-0-525-55824-8
Pages: 321
Published: 2019
A powerful, moving story of a woman
coming into her own at the dawn
of the Second World War, from the
internationally bestselling writer
1932, Since the Great War took
both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet
Speedwell has become a "surplus woman"
one of a generation destined to remain unmarried
after the war killed so many young men. Yet
Violet cannot reconcile herself to a future spent
caring for her grieving, embittered mother. Set-
ting out for Winchester, home to one of Eng-
land's grandest cathedrals, she finds both a job
and a room of her own in a boardinghouse.
Violet also falls in with the broderers, a dis-
parate group of women charged with embroi-
dering cushions and kneelers for the cathedral,
and is soon entwined in their community and
their secrets. She finds friendship in her new
circle, fulfillment in the work they create, and-
having long ago dismissed the possibility--love.
As the almost unthinkable threat of a second
Great War appears on the horizon, Violet must
decide what she is willing to risk to protect the
life she has fought to make for herself.
Vivid, satisfying, and beautifully orches-
trated, A Single Thread reveals one of our finest
modern writers at the peak of her powers.
