Tracy Chevalier, the international author of best selling Girl With The Pearl Earing, is back with her latest book A Single Thread.
We follow Violet Speedwell who is mourning for both her fiancé and her brother following the First World War. Regarded by society as a ‘surplus woman’ unlikely to marry, Violet aims to escape her suffocating mother and strike out alone.
A new life awaits her in Winchester; 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…
Warm, vivid and beautifully orchestrated, A Single Thread reveals one of our finest modern writers at the peak of her powers.