TY  - SOUND
AU  - Chevalier,Tracy
AU  - Woolgar,Fenella
TI  - A single thread
SN  - 9780593149164
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York, N.Y.
PB  - Penguin Audio
KW  - Single women
KW  - England
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Grief
KW  - Female friendship
KW  - Needleworkers
KW  - Self-realization in women
KW  - Nineteen thirties
KW  - Women
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Lesbians
KW  - Winchester (England)
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - George V, 1910-1936
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Audiobooks
N1  - Compact discs; Read by Fenella Woolgar
N2  - 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
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