The Silver Thread - Rilegato

Fitzpatrick, Kylie

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1908800127 ISBN 13: 9781908800121

Casa editrice: Head of Zeus, 2012

Riassunto

'The day was dove grey, and silk. A melancholic cloth that whispered and rustled. Who could say what it foretold.'

Dublin, 1840: Rhia Mahoney watches in despair as her father's linen warehouse goes up in flames. Her family is ruined. Her imagined future, full of pattern and colour, plum brocades and beetle-green taffeta, crumbles to ashes.

Seeking work as a governess in dismal London, Rhia's life is changed beyond all imagination when her uncle, a shipping merchant, commits suicide. Rhia cannot – will not – believe he would take his own life, but before she can investigate, she is accused of a crime she didn't commit, and forced to board a prison ship bound for New South Wales.

The voyage is one of dry biscuits and endless sea, made bearable by the women's daily chore: to sew scraps of cloth into an elaborate quilt. What Rhia does not realise is that with every stich, she binds herself closer to a journey of discovery that will not end in Australia ...

Weaving death, love and adventure into a vivid tale of the world at the height of Empire, The Silver Thread is plotted like a murder mystery, but narrated with the skill and style of a literary storyteller.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Kylie Fitzpatrick is a graduate of the MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, and tutors on the Creative Writing degree course there. Her previous two historical novels have been published in ten languages.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Head of Zeus
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1908800127
• ISBN 13: 9781908800121
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 496
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile