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A Novel
Atria
October 2010
On Sale: October 5, 2010
Featuring: Ellen
496 pages
ISBN: 0743294424
EAN: 9780743294423
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Fiction Women's Fiction | Romance Historical
From international bestselling author Posie Graeme-Evans
comes the passionate tale of a woman ahead of her time. Ellen Gowan is the only surviving child of a scholarly
village minister and a charming girl disowned by her family
when she married for love. Growing up in rural Norfolk,
Ellen’s childhood was poor but blessed with affection.
Resilience, spirit, and one great talent will carry her far
from such humble beginnings. In time, she will become the
witty, celebrated, and very beautiful Madame Ellen,
dressmaker to the nobility of England, the Great Six Hundred. Yet Ellen has secrets. At fifteen she falls for Raoul de
Valentin, the dangerous descendant of French aristocrats.
Raoul marries Ellen for her brilliance as a designer but
abandons his wife when she becomes pregnant. Determined that
she and her daughter will survive, Ellen begins her long
climb to success. Toiling first in a clothing sweat shop,
she later opens her own salon in fashionable Berkeley Square
though she tells the world – and her daughter - she’s a
widow. One single dress, a ballgown created for the
enigmatic Countess of Hawksmoor, the leader of London
society, transforms Ellen’s fortunes, and as the years pass,
business thrives. But then Raoul de Valentin returns and
threatens to destroy all that Ellen has achieved. In The Dressmaker, the romance of Jane Austen, the social
commentary of Charles Dickens and the very contemporary
voice of Posie Graeme-Evans combine to plunge the reader
deep into the opulent, sinister world of teeming Victorian
England. And if the beautiful Madame Ellen is not quite what
she seems, the strength of her will sees her through to the
truth, and love, at last.
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