Filter By Subjects
Families Fiction Generations Fiction II, Queen of Great Britain Elizabeth 1926- Fiction Interpersonal relations Fiction London (England) Social life and customs 20th century Fiction Paris (France) Fiction San Francisco (Calif.) Fiction Wedding costume Fiction Women dressmakers FictionFilter By Subjects
Families Fiction Generations Fiction II, Queen of Great Britain Elizabeth 1926- Fiction Interpersonal relations Fiction London (England) Social life and customs 20th century Fiction Paris (France) Fiction San Francisco (Calif.) Fiction Wedding costume Fiction Women dressmakers FictionRobson, Jennifer
Summary: London, 1947: Besieged by the harshest winter in living memory, burdened by onerous shortages and rationing, the people of postwar Britain are enduring lives of quiet desperation despite their nation's recent victory. Among them are Ann Hughes and Miriam Dassin, embroiderers at the famed Mayfair fashion house of Norman Hartnell. Together they forge an unlikely friendship, but their nascent...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION RobsonSteel, Danielle
Summary: From the glamorous San Francisco social scene of the 1920s, through war and the social changes of the '60s, to the rise of Silicon Valley today, this extraordinary novel takes us on a family odyssey that is both heartbreaking and inspiring, as each generation faces the challenges of their day. The Parisian design houses in 1928, the crash of 1929, the losses of war, the drug culture of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2020