Before writing her bestselling memoir The Waterlily, before her career as a poet, there was the girl from Tumby Bay ... 'the feel of the cold steel of her scissors clipping around my armpits felt dangerous and lovely. the cloth fell in slivers around my socks.' Before writing her bestselling memoir
The Dressmaker's Daughter
โ Scribed by Carson, Nancy
- Book ID
- 108920703
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 390 KB
- Series
- Black Country Chronicles 3 - Kite Family 1
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780008134815
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โฆ Synopsis
Prepare to be swept away by this enthralling story of love, war and one woman who survived them both... Lizzie Bishop's humble beginnings as a dressmaker's daughter see her hope for nothing more than a simple offer of marriage. Love, passion and romance are reserved for daydreams. But then into Lizzie's quiet world comes two men ๏ฟฝ one reliable and kind-hearted, the other heartbreakingly handsome. Just as Lizzie's made her choice, the ominous call of war sounds, and her life changes again. Will Lizzie get her chance at happiness, or has it gone forever?
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