A SINGLE THREAD

Violet Speedwell, mourning for both her fiancé and her brother and regarded by society as a surplus woman unlikely to marry, resol ves to escape her suffocating mother and strike out alone.A new life awaits her in Winchester. Yes, it is one of draughty boarding-h ouses and sidelong glances at her naked ring finger from younger colleagues/ but it is also a life gleaming with independence and op portunity. Violet falls in with the broderers, a disparate group of women charged with embroidering kneelers for the Cathedral, and is soon ent...[Read more]