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A Single Thread

By: Tracy Chevalier
Narrated by: Fenella Woolgar
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FROM THE GLOBALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING

‘Bittersweet … dazzling’ Guardian

‘Deeply pleasurable … the ending made me cry’ The Times

‘Told with a wealth of detail and narrative intensity’ Penelope Lively

Violet is 38.

The First World War took everything from her. Her brother, her fiancé – and her future. She is now considered a ‘surplus woman’.

But Violet is also fiercely independent and determined. Escaping her suffocating mother, she moves to Winchester to start a new life –a change that will require courage, resilience and acts of quiet rebellion. And when whispers of another world war surface, she must live with a secret that could change everything…

©2019 Tracy Chevalier (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers Limited 20th Century Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Women's Fiction World War I

Critic Reviews

"Bittersweet...dazzling." (Guardian)

"Deeply pleasurable...the ending made me cry." (The Times)

"Told with a wealth of detail and narrative intensity." (Penelope Lively)
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Well read. Pleasing to listen to. Tracey Chevalier is a good author. Her books are descriptive and a delight to follow.

Thoroughly enjoyable

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Flow of the story was good and plot interesting it wasn’t sensationalised but felt authentic. Violet was an interesting woman trying to find where she belonged.

The attitudes of the time

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A wonderful story, so utterly enjoyable. Couldn’t put it down! (Switch it off) narration was a joy to listen to.

Loved It

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I thoroughly enjoyed this. It was beautifully and emphatically written and the narrator - Fenella Woolgar - really bought the characters, particularly Violet, to life. A slow-paced, character driven novel, with themes of family, friendship, identity, place and a particular time in history, A Single Thread was well researched and beautifully woven together. This was my first book by Tracy Chevalier, but it will certainly not be my last.

Wonderful!

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Loved, loved loved it. I got absolutely caught up in the story. Found it refreshing.

STIRING

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