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The Dressmaker

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After 20 years spent mastering the art of dressmaking at couture houses in Paris, Tilly Dunnage returns to the small Australian town she was banished from as a child. She plans only to check on her ailing mother and leave.

But Tilly decides to stay, and though she is still an outcast, her lush, exquisite dresses prove irresistible to the prim women of Dungatar.

Through her fashion business, her friendship with Sergeant Farrat - the town’s only policeman, who harbours an unusual passion for fabrics - and a budding romance with Teddy, the local football star whose family is almost as reviled as hers, she finds a measure of grudging acceptance.

But as her dresses begin to arouse competition and envy in town, causing old resentments to surface, it becomes clear that Tilly’s mind is set on a darker design: exacting revenge on those who wronged her, in the most spectacular fashion.

©2000 Rosalie Ham (P)2015 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Historical Fiction Fiction
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loved the film and love the book. just right for a summer listen in the garden.

stylish

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Really good story, kept me wanting to listen, and not to turn it off, twists and turns of the story, set in an Australian small settlement, really enjoyable

Better than the film

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'The Dressmaker' was thoroughly entertaining, great plot, well voiced and would highly recommend to sewists and more.

Right up my catwalk.

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i started off finding the protagonist spiky and unlikeable, but the more this story unfolds, the more horrified I was about the town and the people in it and the more I rooted for the dressmaker.
would recommend.

odd, engaging

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I can't say I didn't enjoy all of it but ... It was strange in parts

Not what I was expecting.

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