The Dressmaker Author:Rosalie Ham "An Australian gothic novel of love, hate and haute couture. Dungatar is a small town like any other in the Victorian wheatlands - except that the women dress like Paris models. This is the story of the exotic Tilly, a talented and beautiful misfit, who returns from Europe to Dungatar to nurse her mad old mother. Her reappearance after twen... more »ty years is met with suspicion and malice from the eccentric locals until they discover her startling dressmaking skills. Among the most appreciative is the the policeman, an enthusiastic seamstress himself. Gradually she wins over the town with her fabulous creations. Then she falls in love and things start to go terribly wrong." - From book cover.« less