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“A Single Thread” proves a rather ironic title for the quiet tapestry that Tracy Chevalier has created in this novel set in 1932, in England, after the Great War. Violet Speedwell is a member of the ...

Tracy Chevalier says she learned the needlepoint stitches used by the women in A Single Thread while researching the book. Violet Speedwell is a "surplus woman." She lost her brother and her fiancé to ...

Chevalier's new novel follows one of the generation of "surplus women," who lost their men in World War I and had to make new lives for themselves... Tracy Chevalier Says 'A Single Thread' Can Make ...