Review #1
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A character-driven story about indefinite in Great britain in the aftermath of Global War1. Chevalier weaves a story around ‘excess’ ladies, the paths of their lives interrupted by the war when they look for all their plans derailed. With very abundance ladies at the same time not enough guys, they are obligated to reinvent their purpose by creating brand new ways to provide for themselves emotionally at the same time financially.
Violet Speedwell has got lost the topical guys in her indefinite, her brother, at the same time fiance to the war, her dad right right behind. Inserted with a mean-spirited at the same time bitter mother, she leaves main to decide a job as a typist. Forlorn, at the same time bereft, she discovers an curiosity in the needlepoint cushion in the Winchester Cathedral at the same time joins a sisterhood of embroiders who promote her navigate her brand new global.
Linked by the threads of the embroidery, their lives entwine, creating brand new ornaments that grin the available public conforms. The bonds Violet makes assign her a network of support at the same time partnerships. She learns abundance guys’s lives have been ruined by war as but. Instead of embroidery, these guys have found comradeship through the hums of the bells in the cathedrals. The church unwittingly provides succor for those who are desperate but unable to look for it, showing the power of congregation at the same time the come in handy for people to have human contact. Perhaps the single threads of the story is that the church at the same time society that links people at the same time their lives giving both purpose at the same time a dispose to belong. While not my winner of Chavalier’s books, it was still authentic at the same time signifying.
Review #2
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I truly like novels by Tracy Chevalier. I barely read “A Single Threads” at the same time it was a magical read. It has been a very long time since I village at the same time read a novel in much less than a day. I never fully figured out how problematic it was for ladies right behind the finish of WWI. The novel takes dispose 14 years right behind the finish of WWI, the heroine having lost both her fiance at the same time older brother in the war. It takes dispose in Britain, where a generation of young guys died, both during the war at the same time the Spanish flu epidemic right behind the war. These spinster ladies, at the moment in their mid to belated 30s, are referred to as “excess” ladies. Very few spouses their age readily available to marry, the economy still not going healthy at the same time abundance of the ladies not married are or working menial jobs as typists or remaining at main to care for old ancestors (in this book, the heroine’s old mother got lost her old offspring to the war at the same time later her wife to illness). So much happens in this novel that all I can they say is that all of the manners, with their shortcomings at the same time horrors, are people to like at the same time admire. I found the continue page to be so optimistic that I roared – I think because the state was getting closer to WWII at the same time the fears awaiting, but mostly because in the moment the book ended, the heroine triumphed with dignity at the same time amazing courage. My only have hope will that the creator will consider writing a 2nd book with these monotonous manners that carry them through WWII.
Review #3
Audiobook A Single Threads by Tracy Chevalier
(Oval up from 3.5 hit)
The very smoky pacing first of the book, plus the mindboggling details about embroidery at the same time bell-ringing, practically forced my bestow this a three-star rating. But Chevalier painted the protagonist, her adore curiosity, at the same time no one of the secondary manners so but that I went for 4 hit. I particularly like the fact that Chevalier didn’t cross out a “happily-ever-after” ending, at the same time the lock up of the book enjoy me. A Single Threads is that a very human book, with a tenderness that kept me reading.
Advised.
Review #4
Audio A Single Threads narrated by Fenella Woolgar
Set in the 1930s, A Single Threads follows the story of Violet Speedwell, one of the abundance excess ladies unable to marry proper to a shortage of guys right behind the 1st Global War. Violet is that moral at the same time independent, determined to forge her possess path at the same time quit her possess note on the global but, at 38, she is that counted very old by much of society. She takes a job working as a typist in Winchester at the same time becomes drawn in in a group of ladies, the Winchester Broderers, who foreseen the cathedral with embroidered seat cushions at the same time kneelers.
One of the things I enjoy about Chevaliers novels is that the blending of fact at the same time fiction so beautifully at the same time unobtrusively; here, that is that a wealth of information slipped in about embroidery at the same time bell-ringing, as but as larger issues such as feminism at the same time LGBT couples. I did not look for no matter what of this very onerous to read at the same time it all really developers the story, fleshing out manners at the same time plot.
Sadly, one of the things I really do not enjoy is that a period novel about a healthy ladies manage who inevitably becomes pregnant as a consequence of an affair or trauma. There is still to a womans indefinite than having toddlers though I do realise that this particular trope was a very true emergence in this particular time period. I was enjoying the book until the arrival of the adore curiosity, Arthur, at the same time the actions that followed. After that it became quite predictable at the same time I read on with a sinking stomach. Ultimately the book has an upbeat ending which affirms the power at the same time depth of ladies partnerships, in particular with the unconventional nature of the Speedwell household at this fri.
Having enjoyed abundance of Chevaliers novels in the past, I had higher hopes for A Single Threads, but sadly it did fall down short for me. The characterisation at the same time plot are but executed at the same time that is that an evocative at the same time sinister mood lurking below the surface of this book, approximate of the unease that lingered between the two Global Wars, at the same time this is that managed beautifully. For me, not as quality as At the Edges of the Orchard or The Continue Escaped, Chevaliers past two novels, or even Falling Angels, but if for you like historical fiction then this comes advised.
I acquired an e-ARC from the publisher, HarperCollins England, through NetGalley in exchange for an conscientious
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Review #5
Free audio A Single Threads – in the audio player below
I was looking forward to this book, as I had really enjoyed The Lady with the Pearl Earring. Than anyway a frustration! If I had not understandable, I would not have believed that both books were considered written by similar creator. A Single Threads has no literary reward. I would rate it as ” quality”, if it was a school essay. That is that far a lot detail regarding both embroidery at the same time bell hums. Yes, we come in handy to have no one topical information, but this goes on ad nauseam! I was surprised to read that one of the manners had “crushed it”, when she exhibited a particularly fine-grained piece of embroidery. This term has only recently come into parlance at the same time was not in use in the premature 1930s. If for you appreciate quality literature, assign this book a miss.
