02283cam a2200373 i 4500 623747950 TxAuBib 20191011120000.0 191007s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781432870317 hardcover; large print 1432870319 hardcover; large print (OCoLC)1122565527 OWL OWL eng eng rda rda rda OWL OWL rda OWL UAP OMN BKL TXDPL TxAuBib OWL UAP OMN BKL TXDPL TxAuBib rda Chevalier, Tracy, author. A Single Thread / By Tracy Chevalier. Large print edition. Farmington Hills, Michigan : Thorndike Press, 2019. 473 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. 20191011. Single women England Fiction. Grief Fiction. Female friendship Fiction. Needleworkers England Fiction. Self-realization in women Fiction. Nineteen thirties v Fiction Fiction. Lesbians Fiction. Historical fiction. Fiction. TXKPL