| ISBN |
9781760850227 (paperback) |
| Name |
Chater, Lauren author. |
| Title |
The winter dress / Lauren Chater. |
| Published |
Cammeray, N.S.W. : Simon & Schuster Australia, 2022. |
| ©2022 |
| Description |
344 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Notes |
Includes book club questions. |
| "How many secrets are woven in its threads". -- Front cover. |
| Summary |
Jo Baaker, a textiles historian and Dutch expat is drawn back to the island where she was born to investigate the provenance of a 17th century silk dress. Retrieved by local divers from a sunken shipwreck, the dress offers tantalising clues about the way people lived and died during Holland's famous Golden Age. Jo's research leads her to Anna Tesseltje, a poor Amsterdam laundress turned ladies' companion who served the enigmatic artist Catharina van Shurman. The two women were said to share a powerful bond, so why did Anna abandon Catharina at the height of her misfortune? Jo is convinced the truth lies hidden between the folds of this extraordinary dress. But as she delves deeper into Anna's history, troubling details about her own past begin to emerge. |
| Subjects |
Women -- Fiction |
| Interpersonal relations -- Fiction |
| Life change events -- Fiction |
| Clothing and dress -- Netherlands -- History -- Fiction |
| Clothing and dress -- Social aspects -- Fiction |
| Fashion -- Netherlands -- History -- Fiction |
| Fashion -- Social aspects -- Fiction |
| Textile fabrics -- History -- Fiction |
| Historians -- Fiction |
| Secrecy -- Fiction |
| Australian fiction |
| Artists -- Fiction |
| Dresses -- Fiction |
| Female friendship -- Fiction |
| Islands -- Amsterdam -- Texel -- Fiction |
| Netherlands -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction |
| Amsterdam (Netherlands) -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction |
| Texel (Netherlands) -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction |
| Genre |
Historical fiction |
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