Violet Speedwell is a "surplus woman", one of many women with no special attributes to make them marriageable to the few men left after the devastation to the English male population in WWl. Resentful at being dependent on her dysfunctional family, she escapes to the town of Winchester to be a typist. It is a job she enjoys but does not find fulfilling. Then she learns of the Winchester Cathedral Broderers - a group of volunteer women who create the elaborately embroidered cushions and kneelers for the cathedral. Here she finds other women who challenge the conventions of the time and stitch by stitch, she alters the fabric and the story of her life. Chevalier does a great job of putting you in the time and place of Violet's story so you can feel genuinely happy for her at the end.
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