The Dressmaker
  • Published: 2 July 2007
  • ISBN: 9780099502876
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $22.00
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The Dressmaker

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A brilliant and utterly heart-warming debut novel about love, family and couture.

Monsieur Claude Reynaud is known throughout France for his talent for making fabulous clothes. The most elegant women in Paris regularly undertake the pilgrimage to the cobbled village of Senlis to be charmed by the tailor in his 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...
  • Published: 2 July 2007
  • ISBN: 9780099502876
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $22.00
Categories:

About the author

Elizabeth Birkelund Oberbeck

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.

Praise for The Dressmaker

touching...will delight fans of Chocolat or Captain Corelli

Gloss Magazine

A stunningly well written novel of love and longing, shot through with that sweet but melancholic tristesse, which owes much to the very French backdrop. An absolute gem.

She

The Dressmaker is a fabulously inventive novel

In Style

Once you open the pages of The Dressmaker you are immediately and effortlessly transported to a different time and place. Oberbeck's enchanting prose brings the captivating streets of Paris and the quaint village of Senlis to life...a fascinating read...The Dressmaker's ability to capture the reader's attention, sense and emotions mark Oberbeck out as a name to watch in future.

Kellie Chambers, Book Reviews, Ulster Tatler

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

...as understated and chic as Coco Chanel.

Veronica Henry, Yours
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