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The Dressmaker's Gift

By: Fiona Valpy
Narrated by: Anne Flosnik, Justine Eyre
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A Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon Charts best seller.

From the best-selling author of The Beekeeper’s Promise comes a gripping story of three young women faced with impossible choices. How will history - and their families - judge them?

Paris, 1940. With the city occupied by the Nazis, three young seamstresses go about their normal lives as best they can. But all three are hiding secrets. War-scarred Mireille is fighting with the Resistance; Claire has been seduced by a German officer; and Vivienne’s involvement is something she can’t reveal to either of them.

Two generations later, Claire’s English granddaughter Harriet arrives in Paris, rootless and adrift, desperate to find a connection with her past. Living and working in the same building on the Rue Cardinale, she learns the truth about her grandmother - and herself - and unravels a family history that is darker and more painful than she ever imagined.

In wartime, the three seamstresses face impossible choices when their secret activities put them in grave danger. Brought together by loyalty, threatened by betrayal, can they survive history’s darkest era without being torn apart?

©2019 Fiona Valpy (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. 20th Century Contemporary Contemporary Romance Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Romance Women's Fiction
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The story was an incredible one of survival. To live at that time. Friendships and loyalty got the girls through terrible times. This book is brilliantly researched and written.

Incredible History

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Enjoyed the story but found the narrator depressing to listen too, I couldn’t wait for it to finish.

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