by Tracy Chevalier
This is my seventh book by Tracy Chevalier and I have enjoyed them all. My favourite is still Fallen Angels, about the Suffragette movement, but I enjoyed learning about the Winchester Broderers and the tradition of bell ringing.I must admit, I did skim some of the detailed descriptions of the embro...
This is my seventh book by Tracy Chevalier and I have enjoyed them all. My favourite is still Fallen Angels, about the Suffragette movement, but I enjoyed learning about the Winchester Broderers and the tradition of bell ringing. I must admit, I did skim some of the detailed descriptions of the embr...
Die englische Stadt Winchester in den 1930er-Jahren: Nach ihrem Auszug aus dem mütterlichen Zuhause stößt die Schreibkraft Violet Speedwell in der Kathedrale zufällig auf die Gruppe der Broderinnen. Die 38-Jährige mag die Abende mit den ungewöhnlichen Frauen, an denen sie zusammen unter Anleitung vo...
Violet is what was termed as a “surplus woman” when there were so few men left after the devastating First World War. To get away from her overbearing mother she moves a few miles away to the lovely city of Winchester where a whole new world opens up to her. I loved the gentle pace of this book, the...
I thank NetGally and The Borough Press (Harper Collins) for providing me an ARC copy of this novel, which I freely decided to review. I only came to Chevalier’s books quite late (I hadn’t read any of her novels until I caught up with At the Edge of the Orchard, which I loved), but I’m fast becoming ...
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