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February 28, 2023

REVIEW: Silk and Stone by Dinah Dean

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads12th century / Anglo-Saxon / class differences / England / Historical / Historical fiction / medieval / needlework / Norman Conquest / religion / self discovery / stone mason2 Comments

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Sometimes the miracles you were praying for were there all along… Norman-born Elys de Wix fills her time with embroidery on the long pilgrimage to Rome to pray for healing of brother’s injury. She never thought much of it, until their new traveling companion, Saxon master-mason Aylwin, admires her skill. ... more >

February 10, 2023

REVIEW: The Tapestry of Love by Rosy Thornton

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsfish-out-of-water / France / needlework / older woman / rural setting / self discovery / sisters / Womens-Fiction2 Comments

A warm and uplifting story of how a woman falls in love with a place and its people: a landscape, a community and a fragile way of life. A rural idyll: that’s what Catherine is seeking when she sells her house in England and moves to a tiny hamlet in ... more >

September 17, 2019

REVIEW: A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews1930s / crafts / dysfunctional family / England / family relationships / Historical / needlework / spinster / Womens-Fiction4 Comments

1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a “surplus woman,” one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her ... more >

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