THE SEAMSTRESS

Spain, 1936 and the brink of civil war.Aged twelve, Sira Quiroga was apprenticed to a Madrid dressmaker. As she masters the seamstre ss's art, her life seems to be clearly mapped out - until she falls passionately in love and flees with her seductive lover.But in M orocco she is betrayed and left penniless. As civil war engulfs Spain, Sira finds she cannot return and so turns to her one true ski ll - and sews beautiful clothes for the expat elite and their German friends.With Europe rumbling towards war, Sira is lured back to Franco'...[Read more]