The Dressmaker

Zusatztext A wonderfully Dickensian flavour... Everyone in the book is alive and believable Informationen zum Autor Benita Brown was born and brought up in Newcastle by her English mother! the youngest of thirteen children! and her Indian father! who came to Newcastle to study medicine and fell in love with the place and the people. After meeting her husband while she was at drama school in London! Benita returned to her home town and worked as a teacher and broadcaster before becoming a full-time writer ! publishing many much-loved novels. Sadly! Counting the Days was Benita's last book! as she passed away in April 2014 following a sudden illness. She will be greatly missed. A heartrending story of a mother's dream for her daughter Zusammenfassung Emmeline Dornay's dying wish is for her daughter Melissa to have a home. But when the funeral is over, Melissa discovers that her future looks bleak. Wealthy Lilian Winterton will honour her promise and put a roof over Melissa's head, but only if she can earn her keep. As an unpaid seamstress in the grand Winterton household, Melissa is ignored by the family and mistrusted by their servants. And when scandal occurs and the blame lands unfairly at her feet, she is thrown on to the streets. Left with nothing but her needle and thread, Melissa finds her dreams are in tatters. But can the rags of her life be sewn into riches...?

Product details

• Authors: Benita Brown, Brown Benita
• Publisher: Headline
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 20.03.2008
• EAN: 9780755334742
• ISBN: 978-0-7553-3474-2
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 112 mm x 176 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Historical romance, FICTION / Romance / Historical / General, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Sagas, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Friendship, FICTION / Romance / Historical / Victorian, c 1800 to c 1900, Family life fiction, Generational sagas, Sewing, 1837–1901 (Victorian period)