She dreams of freeing herself from the hardscrabble life she has inherited but can't help being pulled back in by the love of the people around her. Some are kind and generous, others blinded by their desire to climb the social ladder. Her story weaves in and out of the lives of the people she works for, whose secrets and scandals she is privy to.
Her work is simple and honest taught by her nonna, she skilfully prepares nightgowns, undergarments and children's clothes, leaving the finer work of dressmaking to the ateliers in Paris. An immersive and vividly written historical novel for anyone who loved Ferrante's Neapolitan novels or Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring.īorn into poverty, the seamstress spends her days sewing in the houses of wealthy families.
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