Intoxicating, haunting and inspired by the author's background, The Silk House is an exceptional gothic mystery. A length of fabric she weaves with a pattern of deadly flowers will have far-reaching consequences for all who dwell in the silk house. In London, Mary-Louise Stephenson lives amid the clatter of the weaving trade and dreams of becoming a silk designer, a job that is the domain of men. She is thrust into a new and dangerous world where her talent for herbs and healing soon attracts attention. The Botanists Daughter was the 2020 winner of the Winston Graham Historical Fiction Prize. In the late 1700s, Rowan Caswell leaves her village to work in the home of an English silk merchant. Kayte Nunn is a former book and magazine editor, and the author of six previous novels, including the international bestselling The BotanistsDaughter, The Forgotten Letters of Esther Durrant, The Silk House and The Last Reunion. The Silk House is her sixth novel set in England in two time frames, the present day and during the silk trade in the 18 th century. She is to stay with them in Silk House, a building with a long and troubled past. Kayte Nunn, has found an international readership for her novels including The Botanist’s Daughter and The Forgotten Letters of Esther Durrant. Australian history teacher Thea Rust arrives at an exclusive boarding school in the British countryside only to find that she is to look after the first intake of girls in its 150-year history. Haunting. The spellbinding story of a mysterious boarding school sheltering a centuries-old secret.
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