Lucy Adlington: author, actor and costume historian discusses her beautiful novel The Red Ribbon, the significance of clothing as shaping identity, and finding hope amongst the dark.

Set in WWII under the Nazi regime, the story centres around a group of young women working for the Commandment's wife to create fashionable clothes for the wives of officers. A fashion house right in the middle of a labour and extermination camp, and this account is taken from history.

Lucy chats about the ambiguity of morality when faced with such horror, friendship, storytelling as escapism and always finding hope.

A beautiful story told from a unique perspective!