The Dressmaker's Gift

ISBN: 1542005132

Author: Valpy, Fiona

Condition: Used

A Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon Charts bestseller.From the bestselling author of The Beekeepers Promise comes a gripping story of three young women faced with impossible choices. How will history-and their families-judge them?Paris, 1940. With the city occupied by the Nazis, three young seamstresses go about their normal lives as best they can. But all three are hiding secrets. War-scarred Mireille is fighting with the Resistance; Claire has been seduced by a German officer; and Viviennes involvement is something she cant reveal to either of them.Two generations later, Claires English granddaughter Harriet arrives in Paris, rootless and adrift, desperate to find a connection with her past. Living and working in the same building on the Rue Cardinale, she learns the truth about her grandmother-and herself-and unravels a family history that is darker and more painful than she ever imagined.In wartime, the three seamstresses face impossible choices when their secret activities put them in grave danger. Brought together by loyalty, threatened by betrayal, can they survive historys darkest era without being torn apart?