A single thread

Resource Information

The work A single thread represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Thunder Bay Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Audio, Nonmusical, Sounds, Music.

Label

A single thread

Statement of responsibility

by Tracy Chevalier

Creator

• Chevalier, Tracy

Contributor

• Woolgar, Fenella

Subject

• Historical fiction
• Lesbians -- Fiction
• Self-realization in women -- Fiction
• Single women -- England -- Fiction
• Winchester (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
• Grief -- Fiction

Genre

• Historical fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

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

Format of music

not applicable

PerformerNote

Read by Fenella Woolgar

Target audience

adult