Zweigstelle	Standorte	Status	Vorbestellungen	Frist	Mediengruppe
Zweigstelle: Hauptstelle	Standorte: VELT - ENGLISCH / Stadtbibliothek Reinbek	Status: Verfügbar	Vorbestellungen: 0	Frist:	Mediengruppe: Erwachsenen Romane

When Esther Thorel, the wife of a Huguenot silk-weaver, rescues Sara Kemp from a brothel she thinks she is doing God’s will. Sara is not convinced being a maid is better than being a whore, but the chance to escape her grasping ‘madam’ is too good to refuse.

 

Inside the Thorel’s tall house in Spitalfields, where the strange cadence of the looms fills the attic, the two women forge an uneasy relationship.

 

It is silk that has Esther so distracted. For years she has painted her own designs, dreaming that one day her husband will weave them into reality. When he laughs at her ambition, she unwittingly sets in motion events that will change the fate of the whole Thorel household and set the scene for a devastating day of reckoning between her and Sara.

 

The price of a piece of silk may prove more than either is able to pay.