This was a quiet little book about I guess what is a quiet little life. Violet is considered a spinster in 1937 after losing her young sweetheart in the first World War. She leaves her overbearing mothers home to make a new life for herself in Winchester. There, on a visit to the cathedral she comes across a group of women who making kneelers and cushions for the church. She makes new friends and begins to find a place for herself.
I enjoyed this little read - Tracy Chevalier has a way of dropping me right into the time period she is writing about, and I often think about women like Violet, who try to make a life away from the family and how hard it must have been for them, and how easy we have it in comparison now. 4/5
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Some people have it easy now, leading a life away from family; from the sounds of things, some children never want to cut the apron strings.
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