6/8/2023 0 Comments The seamstress maria duenas![]() There are one or two moments where perhaps the story staggers ever so slightly during the word marathon, but on the whole, the book flies by. If you want a signpost before you start reading, I would say Barbara Taylor Bradford meets Ken Follett. Spanish writer and university professor/lecturer Maria Duenas has written a physically weighty novel but don't be put off by either its size or the professor's academic day job. This propels her into a business serving the cream of Moroccan ex-pat society, and that includes Nazi officers' wives and mistresses a clientele that has possibilities that certain powers seem very happy to utilise. However, there's a kind-hearted, rough diamond of a local who, via unorthodox and downright dangerous means, pushes Sira towards reliance on the one thing she's brought from Spain: her gift with the sewing needle. ![]() ![]() ![]() Raised in Spain by her mother and unaware of her father's identity, Sira moves to Morocco following her true love, only to be left stranded and alone. ![]() Initially published as The Time in Between in 2011, The Seamstress follows Sira Quiroga from poverty-stricken childhood, through to the war time Special Operations Executive agent against a backdrop of Franco's Spain and ex-pat populated Morocco. ![]()
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