The Seamstress - US Title = The Time in Between

Informationen zum Autor María Dueñas holds a PhD in English Philology and is currently a professor at the University of Murcia. She has also taught at American universities, is the author of several academic articles, and has participated in various educational, cultural and editorial projects. She is currently writing her second novel. Klappentext The million-copy international bestselling novel about a seamstress who becomes an undercover spy for the British Secret Service during World War II. Zusammenfassung Spain, 1936 and the brink of civil war. Young, poor Sira Quiroga is swept up in a whirlwind romance with her wily love Ramiro. Fleeing Madrid together for Morocco, her love blinds her to his real failings. Soon abandoned, left penniless and in debt to the authorities, she has to rely on the one skill she still possesses: sewing.

Product details

• Authors: Maria Duenas, María Dueñas, Duenas Maria
• Assisted by: Daniel Hahn (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2012
• EAN: 9780670920037
• ISBN: 978-0-670-92003-7
• No. of pages: 624
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 27 mm
• Series: VIKING FIC PB; VIKING FIC PB
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Historical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, joanna trollope; joanna blake; sarah ferguson