The dressmaker

Description:

Tess, an aspiring seamstress, is stunned at her luck when the famous designer Lady Lucile Duff Gordon hires her to be a personal maid on the Titanic's maiden voyage. When disaster strikes, Tess is one of the last people allowed on a lifeboat - her employer also survives. On dry land, savage rumours begin to circulate: did Lady Duff Gordon save herself at the expense of others? Tess's dream of becoming a skilled dressmaker is within her grasp but now she is faced with a terrible choice. Suddenly she finds herself torn between loyalty to the fiery woman who could help her realise her ambitions and the devastating truth that her mentor may not be all she seems ...

subjects: Women dressmakers,  Fiction,  Shipwreck survival,  English,  Titanic (Steamship),  Large type books,  Fiction, romance, historical,  Fiction, historical, general,  Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks,  Scandals,  Man-woman relationships,  Love,  British,  Dressmaking,  Reporters and reporting,  Extortion,  NEW LIST 20120331,  English fiction,  Couturières,  Romans, nouvelles,  Survie après naufrages,  Roman anglais,  Shipwrecks,  Historical fiction

Places: United States