A Single Thread

FROM THE GLOBALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING Bittersweet dazzling Guardian Deeply pleasurable the ending made me cry The Times Told with a wealth of detail and narrative intensity Penelope Lively Violet is 38. The First World War took everything from her. Her brother, her fianc and her future. She is now considered a surplus woman. But Violet is also fiercely independent and determined. Escaping her suffocating mother, she moves to Winchester to start a new life a change that will require courage, resilience and acts of quiet rebellion. And when whispers of another world war surface, she must live with a secret that could change everything