Audiobooks The Gown

Aqu Blog September 07, 2023

The Gown

by Jennifer Robson

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?Millions will?welcome this joyous event as a flash of color on the long road we have to?travel.??Sir Winston Churchill on the news of Princess Elizabeth?s?forthcoming weddingLondon, 1947: Besieged by the harshest winter in living memory,?burdened by onerous shortages and rationing, the people of postwar Britain are enduring lives of quiet desperation despite their nation?s recent victory.?Among them are Ann Hughes and Miriam Dassin, embroiderers at the famed Mayfair?fashion?house of Norman Hartnell. Together they forge an unlikely friendship,?but their nascent hopes for a brighter future are tested when they are?chosen for a once-in-a-lifetime honor: taking part in the creation of Princess?Elizabeth?s wedding gown.Toronto, 2016: More than half a century later, Heather Mackenzie seeks?to unravel the mystery of a set of embroidered flowers, a legacy from?her late?grandmother. How did her beloved Nan, a woman who never spoke of her old?life in Britain, come to possess the priceless