{"id":6493,"date":"2019-11-12T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T20:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/?p=6493"},"modified":"2019-11-12T15:38:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T20:38:00","slug":"a-single-thread-tracy-chevalier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/?p=6493","title":{"rendered":"A Single Thread\/Tracy Chevalier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51kjPieYUjL._SL160_.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"120\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiance, Violet Speedwell has become a &#8220;surplus woman,&#8221; one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her mother&#8217;s place and into the town of Winchester, home to one of England&#8217;s grandest cathedrals. There, Violet is drawn into a society of broderers&#8211;women who embroider kneelers for the Cathedral, carrying on a centuries-long tradition of bringing comfort to worshippers.<\/p>\n<p>Violet finds support and community in the group, fulfillment in the work they create, and even a growing friendship with the vivacious Gilda. But when forces threaten her new independence and another war appears on the horizon, Violet must fight to put down roots in a place where women aren&#8217;t expected to grow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiance, Violet Speedwell has become a &#8220;surplus woman,&#8221; one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6494,"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493\/revisions\/6494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}