The Last Runaway - Tracy Chevalier
When Quaker Honor Bright sails from Bristol with her sister, she is fleeing heartache for a new life in America, far from home. But tragedy leaves her alone and vulnerable, torn between two worlds and dependent on the kindness of strangers, and life in 1850s Ohio is precarious and unsentimental.
Remarkable Creatures - Tracy Chevalier
Mary Anning may be young and uneducated, but she has 'the eye'. Scouring the windswept Jurassic coast near Lyme Regis, she finds fossils nobody else can, making discoveries that will shake the scientific world of the early 19th century.
But science is a male-dominated arena, and there are many who disapprove...
A Single Thread - Tracy Chevalier
It is 1932, and the losses of the First World War are still keenly felt. Violet Speedwell, mourning for both her fiancé and her brother and regarded by society as a 'surplus woman' unlikely to marry, resolves to escape her suffocating mother and strike out alone.
Violet falls in with the broderers, a disparate group of women charged with embroidering kneelers for the Cathedral, and is soon entwined in their lives and their secrets. As the threat of a second Great War appears on the horizon Violet collects a few secrets of her own that could just change everything.