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The Silk House
Sydney
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Hachette Australia
,
2020
19616358
2020
single work
novel
historical fiction
'Weaving. Healing. Haunting. The spellbinding story of a mysterious boarding school sheltering a centuries-old secret...
'Australian history teacher Thea Rust arrives at an exclusive boarding school in the British countryside only to find that she is to look after the first intake of girls in its 150-year history. She is to stay with them in Silk House, a building with a long and troubled past.
'In the late 1700s, Rowan Caswell leaves her village to work in the home of an English silk merchant. She is thrust into a new and dangerous world where her talent for herbs and healing soon attracts attention.
'In London, Mary-Louise Stephenson lives amid the clatter of the weaving trade and dreams of becoming a silk designer, a job that is the domain of men. A length of fabric she weaves with a pattern of deadly flowers will have far-reaching consequences for all who dwell in the silk house.
'Intoxicating, haunting and inspired by the author's background, THE SILK HOUSE is an exceptional gothic mystery.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
- 2021 longlisted Davitt Award — Best Adult Crime Novel
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