Another book with a sewing related title

The Tailor’s Girl by Fiona McIntosh is a historical fiction novel but also a romance. I have read Fiona McIntosh previously, The French Promise and The Lavender Keeper. The Tailor’s Girl is another book for my Historical Fiction Reading Challenge as the story is set in the few years following World War I. From the…

The wing of night was an unusual title

This novel won the Nita Kibble Literary Award in 2006. From the book cover: In 1915 a troopship of Light Horsemen sails from Fremantle for the Great War.  Two women farewell their men: Elizabeth, with her background of careless wealth, and Bonnie, who is marked by the anxieties of poverty.  Neither can predict how the…