The tenth gift
Subtitle: a novel
By: Jane Johnson
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Crown Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780307405227
Subjects: Single women; Fiction; Women tailors
Other titles: Crossed bones
Description: A volume of seventeenth-century embroidery patterns that also contains faint diary entries brings together the lives of two women of different eras--Cat Tregenna, kidnapped by Muslim pirates in 1625, and Julia Lovat, a modern-day woman out to authenticate Cat's story.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]).