![]() ![]() ![]() She is drawn into the shadowy world of espionage, rife with love, intrigue and betrayal. With Europe rumbling towards war, Sira is lured back to Franco's Nazis-friendly Spain. As civil war engulfs Spain, Sira finds she cannot return and so turns to her one true skill – and sews beautiful clothes for the expat elite and their German friends. But in Morocco she is betrayed and left penniless. As she masters the seamstress's art, her life seems to be clearly mapped out – until she falls passionately in love and flees with her seductive lover. Mara Dueas is the author of the New York Times and internationally bestselling novel The Seamstress, a Richard and Judy Book Club pick that has been. Aged twelve, Sira Quiroga was apprenticed to a Madrid dressmaker. Both novels became international bestsellers and have been translated into thirty-five languages. After two decades in academia, she broke onto the literary scene in 2009 with the publication of the New York Timesbestselling novel The Time in Between, followed by The Heart Has Its Reasonsin 2012. María Dueñas's million copy best-selling tale of adventure, tragedy, love and war, The Seamstress, a Richard and Judy 2012 book club pick. Mara Dueas holds a PhD in English philology. ![]()
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