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Book Review of The Forgotten Seamstress

The Forgotten Seamstress
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historical fiction that goes back and forth in time with Caroline in 2008 and Maria the seamstress who is being interviewed in 1970 and telling her life story particularly at the time of WWI. At that time she worked as a seamstress at Buckingham Palace. She made a quilt which Caroline ended up inheriting and having questions about the story it told. She is trying to decipher that story and the history behind the quilt at the same time she is dealing with a mother with dementia, the loss of her job and a new romance.