Tracy Chevalier

A Single Thread


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      The Borough Press

      An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

      1 London Bridge Street

      London SE1 9GF

       www.harpercollins.co.uk

      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2019

      Copyright © Tracy Chevalier 2019

      Cover design by Holly Macdonald © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2019

      Cover photographs © Shelley Richmond / Trevillion Images (woman) and Shutterstock.com (needle and thread)

      “Love Is The Sweetest Thing” Written by Ray Noble

      Published by Range Road Music and Bienstock Publishing

      Company o/b/o Redwood Music Ltd

      Rights administered by Round Hill Carlin, LLC

      Tracy Chevalier asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Source ISBN: 9780008153816

      Ebook Edition © MARCH 2019 ISBN: 9780008153830

      Version: 2020-05-06

       Dedication

      For Morag

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Chapter 6

       Chapter 7

       Chapter 8

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Chapter 18

       Chapter 19

       Chapter 20

       Chapter 21

       Chapter 22

       Chapter 23

       Chapter 24

       Chapter 25

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

       Also by Tracy Chevalier

       About the Publisher

       Chapter 1

      “SHHH!”

      Violet Speedwell frowned. She did not need shushing; she had not said anything.

      The shusher, an officious woman sporting a helmet of grey hair, had planted herself squarely in the archway that led into the choir, Violet’s favourite part of Winchester Cathedral. The choir was right in the centre of the building – the nave extending one way, the presbytery and retrochoir the other, the north and south transepts’ short arms fanning out on either side to complete the cross of the whole structure. The