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.