The Dressmaker by Elizabeth Birkelund Oberbeck

The Dressmaker by Elizabeth Birkelund Oberbeck

Monsieur Claude Reynaud is known throughout France for his talent for making fabulous clothes. The most elegant women in Paris regularly make the pilgrimage to the cobbled village of Senlis to be charmed by the tailor in the cluttered studio by the century-old apple tree. Claude can take a measurement at a glance, stores everything in his head, and fashions each dress by hand. And, despite his ex-wife's protests, he refuses to be lured by the promise of the Parisian fashion industry. He is too old change and certainly too old to fall in love: his only passion is his studio. Then one afternoon, in a cloud of spring blossom, Mademoiselle Valentine de Verlay arrives on Claude's doorstep. She commissions him to create her wedding dress. But before the first stitch has even been made, Claude realises that for the first time in his life he has fallen passionately in love and, very quickly, the seams of both their lives begin to unravel...'Utterly irresistible ..."The Dressmaker" is a delight' - Margot Livesey. 'Elizabeth Oberbeck's novel shimmers with invention. Her imagination is amazingly tactile, visual and sensuous, a rare pleasure ..." The Dressmaker" is a wonderful debut' - Beth Gutcheon. 'One creates a relationship as carefully as one creates a wedding dress. "The Dressmaker" doesn't drop a stitch' - Rita Mae Brown.

Elizabeth Birkelund Oberbeck has contributed to and worked for several book and magazine publications including Cosmopolitan, Glamour and Working Woman. She lives in Greenwich, Connecticut, with her husband and four sons. The Dressmaker is her first novel.

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ISBN 13	9780091796938
ISBN 10	0091796938
Title	The Dressmaker
Author	Elizabeth Birkelund Oberbeck
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cornerstone
Year published	2007-02-01
Number of pages	320
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