The Winter Dress by Lauren Chater

The Winter Dress by Lauren ChaterJo Baaker, a textiles historian and Dutch ex pat is drawn back to the island where she was born to investigate the provenance of a 17th century silk dress. Retrieved by local divers from a sunken shipwreck, the dress offers tantalising clues about the way people lived and died during Holland's famous Golden Age. Jo's research leads her to Anna Tesseltje, a poor Amsterdam laundress turned ladies companion who served the enigmatic artist Catharina van

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