The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle by Jennifer Ryan I requested this book as I run a book club for quilters and I always pick quilting or sewing related novels for us. I was expecting this to be very much about the sewing circle members working on various projects and sharing their life stories. But, there is not much of that, instead this book is so much more; it's about strong, independent women, breaking the norms and expectations of society, and creating their own independent lives during the second world war. Cressida , a famous fashion designer supplying the rich and famous in London, has her whole world turned upside down when both her home and work buildings are bombed in the same raid. After spending a night in a shelter with other survivors she contacts Hugh, her nephew, who's in charge of the old ancestral home in Aldhurst, Kent. He offers her to come and stay, so she catches the train with only the clothes she's wearing and a tiny handbag which she managed to gra...
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