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Author:

Velton, Sonia, author.

Title:

Blackberry & wild rose / Sonia Velton.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Blackstone Publishing,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

288 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Silk weaving--Fiction.
Women designers--Fiction.
Designers--Fiction.
Lady's maids--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.

Summary:

Set in eighteenth-century Spitalfields, London, Blackberry and Wild Rose is the rich and atmospheric tale of a household of Huguenot silk weavers as the pursuit of the perfect silk design leads them all into ambition, love, and betrayal.
1760s, Spitalfields. Esther Thorel, wife of a master silk weaver, rescues Sara Kemp from a brothel thinking she is doing God's will, but her good deed is not returned. Sara, realizing the Thorel household is built on hypocrisy and lies, tires of the drudgery of life as Esther's maid. Esther yearned to be a silk designer, but her water colors are dismissed by her husband, Elias, as the daubs of a foolish girl. Bisby Lambert is brought in by Elias to weave his masterpiece on the Thorel's loom in the attic. The cadence of the loom calls to Esther. When she sees Bisby at his loom, the pursuit of the perfect silk design leads them all into ambition, love, and betrayal. -- adapted from jacket

ISBN:

1538507757
9781538507759

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1055914150

Locations:

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

DBPE173 -- Clear Lake Public Library (Clear Lake)

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

KAPF566 -- Keokuk Public Library (Keokuk)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)

WSPF215 -- Spencer Public Library (Spencer)