A Single Thread

FROM THE GLOBALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING

‘Bittersweet … dazzling’ Guardian

‘Deeply pleasurable … the ending made me cry’ The Times

‘Told with a wealth of detail and narrative intensity’ - Penelope Lively

by Tracy Chevalier tells the story of Violet, who is 38 years old. The First World War has taken everything from her—her brother, her fiancé, and her future—leaving her labelled as a ‘surplus woman’.

However, Violet is fiercely independent and resolute. She escapes her suffocating mother by moving to Winchester to forge a new life—one that will demand courage, resilience, and acts of quiet rebellion.

As whispers of another world war loom, she must confront a secret that could alter everything..