TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chater,Lauren
TI  - The winter dress
SN  - 9781760850227
U1  - A823.4 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Cammeray, N.S.W.
PB  - Simon & Schuster Australia
KW  - Women
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Life change events
KW  - Clothing and dress
KW  - Netherlands
KW  - History
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Fashion
KW  - Textile fabrics
KW  - Historians
KW  - Secrecy
KW  - Artists
KW  - Dresses
KW  - Female friendship
KW  - Islands
KW  - Amsterdam
KW  - Texel
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Amsterdam (Netherlands)
KW  - Texel (Netherlands)
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes book club questions; "How many secrets are woven in its threads?" -- Front cover
N2  - Jo Baaker, a textiles historian and Dutch expat is drawn back to the island where she was born to investigate the provenance of a 17th century silk dress. Retrieved by local divers from a sunken shipwreck, the dress offers tantalising clues about the way people lived and died during Holland's famous Golden Age. Jo's research leads her to Anna Tesseltje, a poor Amsterdam laundress turned ladies' companion who served the enigmatic artist Catharina van Shurman. The two women were said to share a powerful bond, so why did Anna abandon Catharina at the height of her misfortune? Jo is convinced the truth lies hidden between the folds of this extraordinary dress. But as she delves deeper into Anna's history, troubling details about her own past begin to emerge
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