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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Chamberlain, Mary, 1947-     Subjects     Dachau (Concentration camp) -- Fiction.     British -- France -- Fiction     Women dressmakers -- Fiction     Resilience (Personality trait) -- Fiction.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Fiction     World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Fiction.     Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction     Browse Catalog     by author:      Chamberlain, Mary, 1947-       by title:      The dressmaker's war...       by call number:      FICTION CHA     Search the Web     Chamberlain, Mary, 1947-     Dachau (Concentration camp) -- Fiction.     British -- France -- Fiction     Women dressmakers -- Fiction     Resilience (Personality trait) -- Fiction.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Fiction     World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Fiction.     Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction       MARC Display

The dressmaker's war : a novel / Mary Chamberlain. by Chamberlain, Mary, 1947- Random House, [2015] Call #: FICTION CHA Subjects Dachau (Concentration camp) -- Fiction.   British -- France -- Fiction   Women dressmakers -- Fiction   Resilience (Personality trait) -- Fiction.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Fiction   World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Fiction.   Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction ISBN:  9780812997378 (hc.) 0812997379 (hc) Alternate title:  Dressmaker of Dachau Edition:  1st Edition Description:  304 p. ; 25 cm. Notes:  "Originally published in the United Kingdom under the title The dressmaker of Dachau by The Borough Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, London, 2015."--T.p. verso. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (page 304). Summary:  "In London, 1939, Ada Vaughan is a young woman with an unusual dressmaking skill, and dreams of a better life for herself. That life seems to arrive when Stanislaus, an Austrian aristocrat, sweeps Ada off her feet and brings her to Paris. When war breaks out, Stanislaus vanishes, and Ada is taken prisoner by the Germans, she must do everything she can to survive: by becoming dressmaker to the Nazi wives. Abandoned and alone as war rages, the choices Ada makes will come to back to haunt her years later, as the truth of her experience is twisted and distorted after the war."--From publisher. Genre:  Historical fiction. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Central Library Adult Fiction FICTION CHA Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Borrow By Mail Adult Fiction FICTION CHA Adult books Checked out Jul 10, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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