The boy she falls in love with, Henri, is a Huguenot (or Protestant) whose family fled persecution in France by the Catholic king. The Huguenots were banned from worshipping in their own way and many decided to use all their savings to make perilous journeys in small boats across the Channel to reach safety in England. I became fascinated by the parallels with what is happening to refugees today and wanted to highlight them in this novel.
A novel of illicit romance set against the world of the silk trade in London
Anna Butterfield 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…If The Silk Weaver sounds like a book you'd like to read then you're in luck as I've been offered two copies to giveaway to followers of the blog (sorry restricted to UK & Ireland only). Enter via the Rafflecopter form below, the winners will be selected at random next week and contacted for their addresses to pass onto Alice at Pan Macmillan to post the books to them.
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This sounds like a book that I'd very much enjoy reading, and thanks for the giveaway.
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ReplyDeleteWhat a coincidence, I was thumbing through a copy of this earlier today and *almost* slipped it into my shopping trolley, it looks so much my kind of thing. But we had such a lot to buy I thought I'd better not. Then I came home and sat down with tea-and-Twitter and the first thing I saw, Shaz, was your tweet about it!
ReplyDeleteLoved The Last Telegram and this sounds really good. I can't wait to read it.
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