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Dark Thread
Kate is a weaver, like her mother. They are in the middle of showing at an exhibition together, when her mother is killed. Kate knows it's her if they hadn't been arguing, if she hadn't run away from her mother and crossed the road when she did .... Tiredness, grieving and guilt come
together in a visit back in time to the mill, when Kate learns to survive in another time, and to look again at what is important. Above all she has to learn to weave the dark thread in her the sad things, the black parts which make the rest of the pattern stand out and make sense
overall.
together in a visit back in time to the mill, when Kate learns to survive in another time, and to look again at what is important. Above all she has to learn to weave the dark thread in her the sad things, the black parts which make the rest of the pattern stand out and make sense
overall.
144 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1998
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September 20, 2012
I have just read DARK THREAD for the second time, and found that I loved it just as much as I did the first time round. This is perhaps my favourite kind of book - with a strong historical theme, powerful female characters and loads of gritty detail about the time and place.
Kate, a skilled, young, weaver, is suffering from grief, but she also carries an additional burden of guilt, as she feels that she was responsible for the accident that killed her mother. Feeling ill, miserable and exhausted, she collapses and finds herself carried back to Cromford Mill at the time of the Industrial Revolution, where she encounters weavers, spinners and lead miners - some who help, some who threaten.
The book is short - almost a novella - but it is a 'little gem' of a story. Pauline Chandler's clear, vivid prose carries the story along effortlessly. I highly recommend it and wish I'd written it myself!
Kate, a skilled, young, weaver, is suffering from grief, but she also carries an additional burden of guilt, as she feels that she was responsible for the accident that killed her mother. Feeling ill, miserable and exhausted, she collapses and finds herself carried back to Cromford Mill at the time of the Industrial Revolution, where she encounters weavers, spinners and lead miners - some who help, some who threaten.
The book is short - almost a novella - but it is a 'little gem' of a story. Pauline Chandler's clear, vivid prose carries the story along effortlessly. I highly recommend it and wish I'd written it myself!
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