TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chater, Lauren,
TI  - The winter dress
SN  - 9781760850227
U1  - A823.4 23
PY  - 2022///.
CY  - Pymble, NSW
PB  - Simon & Schuster Australia, 
KW  - Dresses
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Historians
KW  - Artists
KW  - Secrecy
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Islands
KW  - Amsterdam
KW  - Texel
KW  - Netherlands
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Texel (Netherlands)
KW  - AUS historical fiction (New South Wales)
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - fast
N2  - Two women separated by centuries but connected by one beautiful silk dress. Jo Baaker, a textiles historian and Dutch ex-pat is drawn back to the island where she was born to investigate the provenance of a 17th century silk dress. Retrieved by local divers from a sunken shipwreck, the dress offers tantalising clues about the way people lived and died during Holland's famous Golden Age. Jo's research leads her to Anna Tesseltje, a poor Amsterdam laundress turned ladies companion who served the artist Catharina van Shurman for one season at her property outside the Hague. The two women were said to be close, so why did Anna abandon Catharina at the height of her misfortune? And was the dress a gift or did Anna come by it through less honest means? Jo is determined to find out, but as she delves deeper into Anna's history, troubling details about her own past begin to emerge, disrupting the personal narrative she has trusted for sixteen years. On the small Dutch island of Texel where fortunes are lost and secrets lie buried for centuries, Jo will finally discover the truth about herself and her connection to the woman who wore the Winter Dress
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