muninnherself 's review for:

A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier

4.0

emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This is the only TC I've read except TGWTPE. It's good. I live near Winchester and it's always interesting to read a book set somewhere you know quite well. The story, with its combination of catherdral detail, bellringing detail, needlepoint detail and 'surplus women' detail is good, although some of the dialogue is a bit weirdly formal. Violet, with her awkwardly constrained life, contained sorrow and awful mother, is a sympathetic protagonist, and once again one is infinitely grateful not to have been born any earlier than one was.