Dec 10
The Seamstress Maria Duenas
Posted by anne on Saturday Dec 10, 2011 Under fiction
At aged twelve, Sira sweeps the atelier floors where her single mother works as a dressmaker. As she grows up, she masters the seamstress's art and her life seems to be clearly mapped out.
When she falls in love, she runs away to Morocco with her lover. But in Tangier she is betrayed and left penniless. She survives by turning to the one skill that can save her: she begins to make beautiful clothes for women of the expat elite.
As Europe rumbles towards war, Sira is lured back to Franco's neutral but Nazi-friendly Spain. She becomes embroiled in the half-lit world of espionage and political conspiracy, rife with intrigue and betrayal, where the greatest danger lies ...
Publisher's price R190.00 Our price R165.00
