Maria Duenas

María Dueñas is a true storyteller.  Read this book and prepare to be transported

María Dueñas's ambitious debut belongs to that increasingly rare genre: the historical epic...a richly satisfying novel

A magnificent novel that flawlessly brings together history and intrigue

A wonderful novel with intrigue, love, mystery and tender, audacious and clean-cut characters

A literary cocktail that mixes adventure, espionage, glamour, aristocracy and passion

How can a novel be both cruel and tender, dark and luminous all at the same time, and keep the reader glued to its pages with a complex, captivating narrative? María Dueñas's novel manages to make this possible with a tale that is destined to become a literary classic

Spain, 1936 and the brink of civil war. 
 
Young, poor Sira Quiroga is swept up in a whirlwind romance with her wily love Ramiro. Fleeing Madrid together for Morocco, her love blinds her to his real failings. Soon abandoned, left penniless and in debt to the authorities, she has to rely on the one skill she still possesses: sewing. 
 
Taken under the wing of the bullish but caring housekeeper Candelaria, Sira is able to sew for the glamorous foreign English and German women in Tetouan. Privy to their unbridled gossip, Sira becomes invaluable to the British secret service, a position that is filled with untold risk. 
 
A tale of danger, espionage, love and war, The Seamstress is a WWII tale like no other.

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María Dueñas is a true storyteller. Read this book and prepare to be transported

María Dueñas's ambitious debut belongs to that increasingly rare genre: the historical epic...a richly satisfying novel

A magnificent novel that flawlessly brings together history and intrigue

María Dueñas is a true storyteller. Read this book and prepare to be transported

María Dueñas's ambitious debut belongs to that increasingly rare genre: the historical epic...a richly satisfying novel

A magnificent novel that flawlessly brings together history and intrigue

María Dueñas is a true storyteller. Read this book and prepare to be transported

María Dueñas's ambitious debut belongs to that increasingly rare genre: the historical epic...a richly satisfying novel

A magnificent novel that flawlessly brings together history and intrigue

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