The Dressmaker
A darkly satirical novel of love, revenge, and 1950s haute couture—soon to be a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet and Liam HemsworthAfter twenty years spent mastering the art of dressmaking at couture houses in Paris, Tilly Dunnage returns to the small Australian town she was banished...
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A darkly satirical novel of love, revenge, and 1950s haute couture—soon to be a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet and Liam HemsworthAfter twenty years spent mastering the art of dressmaking at couture houses in Paris, Tilly Dunnage returns to the small Australian town she was banished from as a child. She plans only to check on her ailing mother and leave. But Til
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9781846689949
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Pages no: 297
Edition language: English
Ugh. I have no idea what to say about this book. It's not my thing at all. Hearing the narrator talk about Dungatar and its inhabitants, I kept imagining a lemon meringue pie with maggots under the fluffy golden meringue top. With the exception of Tilly, her mother, Teddy and the sergeant there ...
Actual review 3.5 starsI was interested to read some of the criticisms others had of this book. One was that there were too many characters for the reader to keep track of. It's true, there's quite a few characters. However, other books have numerous characters (The Lord of the Rings and The Luminar...
Read by Vincenza - I just loved it. The setting the quirky, stylized characters straight out of a Baz Luhrmann story. My favourite person was the policeman.
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