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Harper
July 2009
On Sale: July 1, 2009
Featuring: Kate Robinson
288 pages
ISBN: 0061721557
EAN: 9780061721557
Hardcover
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Women's Fiction Contemporary
"You can always start again," Kate Robinson's mother once
told her, "all it takes is a new thread." Overwhelmed by
heartbreak and loss, the struggling twenty-six-year-old
fashion designer follows her mother's advice and flees to
her ancestral homeland of Ireland, hoping to break free of
old patterns and reinvent herself. She arrives on
the west coast, in the seaside hamlet of Glenmara. In this
charming, fading Gaelic village, Kate quickly develops a
bond with members of the local lace-making society: Bernie,
alone and yearning for a new purpose since the death of her
beloved husband, John; Aileen, plagued by doubt, helplessly
watching her teenage daughter grow distant; Moira, caught in
a cycle of abuse and denial, stubbornly refusing help from
those closest to her; Oona, in remission from breast cancer,
secretly harboring misgivings about her marriage; Colleen,
the leader of the group, worried about her fisherman
husband, missing at sea. And outside this newfound circle is
local artist Sullivan Deane, an enigmatic man trying to
overcome a tragedy of his own. Under Glenmara's
spell, Kate finds the inspiration that has eluded her, and
soon she and the lace makers are creating a line of
exquisite lingerie. In their skilled hands, flowers, Celtic
dragons, nymphs, fish, saints, kings, and queens come to
life, rendered with painterly skill. The circle also offers
them something more—the strength to face their long-denied
desires and fears. But not everyone welcomes Kate, and a
series of unexpected events threatens to unravel everything
the women have worked so hard for. . . .
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