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Title: The Silk Weaver
Author: Liz Trenow
Narrator: Katie Scarfe
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-26-17
Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Anna Buttterfield moves from her Suffolk country home to her uncle's house in London, to be introduced to society. A chance encounter with a local silk weaver, French immigrant Henri, throws her from her privileged upbringing to the darker, dangerous world of London's silk trade.
Henri is working on his 'master piece' to make his name as a master silk weaver; Anna, meanwhile, is struggling against the constraints of her family and longing to become an artist. Henri realizes that Anna's designs could lift his work above the ordinary and give them both an opportunity for freedom....
This is a charming story of illicit romance, set against the world of the burgeoning silk trade in 18th-century Spitalfields - a time of religious persecution, mass migration, racial tension and wage riots and very different ideas of what was considered 'proper' for women.
Members Reviews:
I enjoyed the historical setting of this novel
I enjoyed the historical setting of this novel. I learnt about the immigrant silk weavers to Britain - I hadn't known about this before. It was a very easy read but interesting and capivating.
A compelling historical novel
THE SILK WEAVER by Liz Trenow is a beautifully written historical novel that will bring you on an emotional journey from start to finish. Anna Butterfield finds herself thrust into London society after the death of her mother, and she struggles with the rigidity of society's rules, and what is deemed acceptable for proper ladies of the eighteenth century. Intelligent and determined she wants more from her life than mundane drudgery, and she yearns to be an artist. And when Anna accidentally meets Henri, a French immigrant and silk weaver, together they may be able to grasp everything their hearts desire. But with opposition from every side, and tensions boiling in the streets of London, Anna and Henri's path together will not be smooth. With exquisite detail, silk weaving and London at that time is brought to life among the pages, and we get to experience it in all its shades and colours - including the harsher tones of life and love at that period of history. THE SILK WEAVER by Liz Trenow is a compelling historical novel and I highly recommend it.
*I voluntarily reviewed this book from Netgalley.com
I really enjoyed this book
After the death of her mother Anna leaves the Suffolk countryside and the safe life with the father, the local vicar, and her sister and goes to stay with her aunt in London where she can be introduced into society and hopefully find a husband.
On her arrival she meets by chance a young French silk weaver, Henri, and there is an instant attraction between them, but she knows that this is a friendship that her aunt would never allow.
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Title: The Silk Weaver
Author: Liz Trenow
Narrator: Katie Scarfe
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-26-17
Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Anna Buttterfield moves from her Suffolk country home to her uncle's house in London, to be introduced to society. A chance encounter with a local silk weaver, French immigrant Henri, throws her from her privileged upbringing to the darker, dangerous world of London's silk trade.
Henri is working on his 'master piece' to make his name as a master silk weaver; Anna, meanwhile, is struggling against the constraints of her family and longing to become an artist. Henri realizes that Anna's designs could lift his work above the ordinary and give them both an opportunity for freedom....
This is a charming story of illicit romance, set against the world of the burgeoning silk trade in 18th-century Spitalfields - a time of religious persecution, mass migration, racial tension and wage riots and very different ideas of what was considered 'proper' for women.
Members Reviews:
I enjoyed the historical setting of this novel
I enjoyed the historical setting of this novel. I learnt about the immigrant silk weavers to Britain - I hadn't known about this before. It was a very easy read but interesting and capivating.
A compelling historical novel
THE SILK WEAVER by Liz Trenow is a beautifully written historical novel that will bring you on an emotional journey from start to finish. Anna Butterfield finds herself thrust into London society after the death of her mother, and she struggles with the rigidity of society's rules, and what is deemed acceptable for proper ladies of the eighteenth century. Intelligent and determined she wants more from her life than mundane drudgery, and she yearns to be an artist. And when Anna accidentally meets Henri, a French immigrant and silk weaver, together they may be able to grasp everything their hearts desire. But with opposition from every side, and tensions boiling in the streets of London, Anna and Henri's path together will not be smooth. With exquisite detail, silk weaving and London at that time is brought to life among the pages, and we get to experience it in all its shades and colours - including the harsher tones of life and love at that period of history. THE SILK WEAVER by Liz Trenow is a compelling historical novel and I highly recommend it.
*I voluntarily reviewed this book from Netgalley.com
I really enjoyed this book
After the death of her mother Anna leaves the Suffolk countryside and the safe life with the father, the local vicar, and her sister and goes to stay with her aunt in London where she can be introduced into society and hopefully find a husband.
On her arrival she meets by chance a young French silk weaver, Henri, and there is an instant attraction between them, but she knows that this is a friendship that her aunt would never allow.