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The Missing Pieces of Nancy Moon
A Historical Fiction Novel by Sarah Steele
Subgenres:
- Dual Timeline,
- Family Secrets
This book is for you if you're into...
- Tracking family secrets through vintage dress patterns and European postcards
- Dual timelines where a modern woman retraces a lost relative's journey
- Stories weaving grief, self-discovery, and handmade fashion
From Little Stack
Florence is mourning the loss of her grandmother and her marriage when she comes across vintage dress patterns from the 1960s that contain mementos from her Great Aunt Nancy’s European adventure. But Flo has never heard of Nancy before. Why did her family keep her a secret? And why did she seem to vanish after her trip?
Florence decides to solve the mystery, embarking on a pilgrimage that takes her from Brighton and Hove to Paris, Antibes, Capri, Venice and Tuscany, following in Nancy’s footsteps and making each dress as she goes.
Riveting and uplifting, this gorgeous debut encapsulates the essence of summer.
Set against the glistening backdrop of the Riviera, this is a truly captivating novel about two women whose lives become seamlessly intertwined when they embark on the same journey decades apart. Take a journey and immerse yourself in this year's most irresistible read. Perfect for fans of Kathryn Hughes, Suzanne Goldring and The Paris Seamstress.
To unravel that long-lost summer, she had to follow the thread...
Florence Connelly is broken hearted. Her marriage has collapsed under the weight of the loss she shares with her husband, and her beloved grandmother has just died. Even the joy she found in dressmaking is gone.
But things change when Flo opens a box of vintage 1960s dress patterns found inside her grandmother's wardrobe. Inside each pattern packet is a fabric swatch, a postcard from Europe and a photograph of a mysterious young woman, Nancy Moon, wearing the hand-made dress.
Flo discovers that Nancy was a distant relation who took the boat train to Paris in 1962 and never returned. With no one to stay home for, Flo decides to follow Nancy's thread. She unravels an untold story of love and loss in her family's past. And begins to stitch the pieces of her own life back together.
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