A Tapestry of Love by Rosy Thornton.

A Tapestry of Love by Rosy Thornton.
(Headline Review, 2010.)
A wonderful story, written like a beautiful painting.

Review by Laura Parish.

A rural idyll: that’s what Catherine is seeking when she sells her house in England and moves to a tiny hamlet in the Cévennes mountains. With her divorce in the past and her children grown, she is free to make a new start, and her dream is to set up in business as a seamstress. But this is a harsh and lonely place when you’re no longer just here on holiday. There is French bureaucracy to contend with, not to mention the mountain weather, and the reserve of her neighbours, including the intriguing Patrick Castagnol. And that’s before the arrival of Catherine’s sister, Bryony…

The Tapestry of Love tells the story of forty eight year old Catherine Parkstone and her life as she leaves everything behind in England to set up a new life in the French Cevennes Mountains with the hope that she can set up a new business as a seamstress.
This book, in my opinion, mirrors what many people would like to do; leave the english weather behind and move to the idyllic hamlet Rosy describes in her novel. This book to me, as I read it, seemed real in the way the characters react and relate to each other and the issues that may face Catherine when moving to a new town. It’s a natural, well researched story where Rosy uses wonderful description, almost like a painting. Each chapter was a delight to read and I often found myself saying ‘just one more page.’
A book I would fully recommend as the winter nights take over and the duvet becomes our friend.

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Laura

I’m Laura. I started Novel Kicks in 2009. I wanted a place to post my writing as well as give other writers like me the opportunity to do the same. There is also a monthly book club, a writing room which features writing prompts, book reviews, competitions, author interviews and guest posts.

I grew up by the sea (my favourite place in the world) and I currently live in Hampshire. I am married to Chris, have a cat named Buddy and I would love to be a writer. I’m trying to write the novel I’ve talked so much about writing if only I could stop pressing delete. I’ve loved writing since creative writing classes in primary school. I have always wanted to see my teacher Miss Sayers again and thank her for the encouragement. When not trying to write the novel or writing snippets of stories on anything I can get my hands on, I love reading, dancing like a loon and singing to myself very badly. My current obsession is Once Upon a Time and I would be happy to live with magic in the enchanted forest surrounded by all those wonderful stories provided that world also included Harry Potter. I love reading chick lit. contemporary fiction and novels with mystery.