Fiona Valpy
Autor(a) de The Dressmaker's Gift
Obras por Fiona Valpy
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 15
- Membros
- 1,084
- Popularidade
- #23,706
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 42
- ISBN
- 59
- Línguas
- 6
- Marcado como favorito
- 1
The author does an admirable job in her descriptions of 1940s occupied Paris and the plot although rather familiar in feel, is gripping. As with many historical novels today, we follow two timelines, one set in the 1940s and one set in modern times. In this book, I thought the double timeline worked quite well as a way to recount the past, as a granddaughter traces her family history through her grandmother’s war time activities. On the other hand I felt the book got a little clunky in the telling of the modern story as the author tried to make parallels between the two stories that just didn’t work.
Nevertheless, I thought The Dressmaker’s Gift was interesting and certainly held my attention with the details about the French fashion industry and the war-time conditions in Paris. Overall the book was a well-told account of survival and friendship.… (mais)