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Miss Burnham and the Loose Thread

byLynn Knight

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Rose had the sense of a thread being pulled. One tug and everything could unravel.

It is 1925 and women’s lives are changing.

Talented, ambitious dress designer Rose Burnham can stitch a perfect seam – and has a knack for uncovering the truth. In their newly established studio, she and her sisters hear every secret whispered in the fitting room. So when a client confides that she’s been duped by a fraudulent suitor, Rose leaps in to investigate.

Playing the detective is a grand adventure, but pressures soon mount and a string of poison-pen letters threaten a friend. Rose must rely on her wit, her resourcefulness and sisterly support to unpick the truth and stitch together their future – or risk losing her hard-fought independence altogether…

Miss Burnham and the Loose Thread is a joy of a read. A superbly researched story of post-WW1 female friendship chock-a-block with characters you’ll cheer on to the very last page, I read it cover to cover in a day

AJ Pearce, Sunday Times bestselling author of Dear Mrs Bird

About Lynn Knight

Lynn Knight was born in Derbyshire and lives in London. The women of her family passed on many stories along with beaded bags and buttoned gauntlets, and fostered her interest in the texture and narratives of women's lives. She is the author of the biography Clarice Cliff (2005), a memoir, Lemon Sherbet and Dolly Blue: The Story of an Accidental Family (2011), and The Button Box: The story of women in the 20th century, told through the clothes they wore (2016). Miss Burnham and the Loose Thread is her first novel.
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  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9781804995297
  • Length: 368 pages
  • Price: £10.99
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