The Sewing Machine

The Sewing Machine

<b>Over 100,000 copies sold</b><br /><br /><b>'A tapestry of strong characters and accomplished writing' Herald Scotland</b><br /><br />It is 1911, and Jean is about to join the mass strike at the Singer factory. For her, nothing will be the same again.<br /><br />Decades later, in Edinburgh, Connie sews coded moments of her life into a notebook, as her mother did before her.<br /><br />More than 100 years after his grandmother’s sewing machine was made, Fred discovers a treasure trove of documents.  His family history is laid out before him in a patchwork of unfamiliar handwriting and colourful seams. <br /><br />He starts to unpick the secrets of four generations, one stitch at a time.