02528cam a2200421 4500 759517230 TxAuBib 20191002120000.0 190222s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019007094 9780525558248 hbk. $27.00 0525558241 hbk. $27.00 (OCoLC)1085628665 DLC eng rda DLC ETC MJ8 OCLCO JTE OCLCF LIV UAP PX0 TCH VAX VP@ CNCAR OCLCO TxGR TxAuBib Chevalier, Tracy, author. A single thread [Book] / Tracy Chevalier. First edition. New York : Viking, [2019] 321 pages ; 24 cm. 1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her mother's place and into the town of Winchester, home to one of England's grandest cathedrals. There, Violet is drawn into a society of broderers--women who embroider kneelers for the Cathedral, carrying on a centuries-long tradition of bringing comfort to worshippers. Violet finds support and community in the group, fulfillment in the work they create, and even a growing friendship with the vivacious Gilda. But when forces threaten her new independence and another war appears on the horizon, Violet must fight to put down roots in a place where women aren't expected to grow. 20191002. Single women England Fiction. Single women Fiction. Grief Fiction. Female friendship Fiction. Needleworkers England Fiction. Needleworkers Fiction. Self-realization in women Fiction. Nineteen thirties Fiction. Women England Fiction. Friendship Fiction. Lesbians Fiction. Winchester (England) Fiction. Winchester (England) Social life and customs 20th century Fiction. Great Britain History 20th century Fiction. Great Britain History George V, 1910-1936 Fiction. RV8