βBittersweet ... dazzlingβ Guardian
βDeeply pleasurable ... the ending made me cryβ The Times
βTold with a wealth of detail and narrative intensityβ Penelope Lively
Violet is 38.
The First World War took everything from her. Her brother, her fiancΓ© β and her future. She is now considered a βsurplus womanβ.
But Violet is also fiercely independent and determined. Escaping her suffocating mother, she moves to Winchester to start a new life βa 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...
Tracy Chevalier is the author of eleven novels, including A Single Thread, Remarkable Creatures and Girl with a Pearl Earring, an international bestseller that has sold over five million copies and been made into a film, a play and an opera. Born in Washington DC, she moved to the United Kingdom in 1986. She and her husband divide their time between London and Dorset.