A Single Thread

von Tracy Chevalier

It's 1932 and Violet Speedwell, mourning for both her fiancé and her brother, escapes her suffocating mother and strikes out alone. Violet falls in with the broderers, a group of women who embroider Cathedral kneelers, and is soon entwined in their lives and their secrets. As the threat of a second War appears on the horizon Violet collects a few secrets of her own that could change everything.