TWO WOMEN SEPARATED BY CENTURIES, THEIR LIVES DRAWN TOGETHER BY A BEAUTIFUL SILK DRESSTextiles historian Jo Baaker returns to the Dutch island where she was born, to investigate the provenance of a valuable seventeenth-century silk dress retrieved from a sunken shipwreck.
Her research leads her to Anna Tesseltje, a poor Amsterdam laundress who served on the fringes of the Dutch court.But how did Anna come to possess such a precious dress? Jo is convinced the truth lies hidden between its folds, but as she gets closer to Anna''s history, haunting details of her own past emerge.
Format |
Häftad |
Omfång |
384 sidor |
Språk |
Engelska |
Förlag |
Allison & Busby |
Utgivningsdatum |
2023-03-23 |
ISBN |
9780749029159 |