Books like Sewing Room Girl by Susanna Bavin

Thomas Hardy’s bleak final novel follows Jude Fawley, a stonemason from rural Wessex, whose search for faith, love and independence collides with society’s harsh conventions and leads to tragedy.

A thriller that brings together political intrigue, family drama and cross‑border espionage when a suicide note triggers a chain of events affecting the Clifton family, a London banker, and a woman behind the Iron Curtain.

The final chapter of Jeffrey Archer’s Clifton Chronicles follows the Clifton family through political intrigue, business battles, and personal crises in contemporary England, as secrets unravel and each character faces unexpected challenges.

The Blake sisters find themselves back in Western Australia after a long separation, facing a challenging journey home to England.

"This book is the first serious account of the significance of home dressmaking as a form of European and American material culture. Exploring themes from the last two hundred years to the present, including gender, technology, consumption and visual representation, contributors show how home dressmakers negotiated and experienced developments to meet a wide variety of needs and aspirations. Not merely passive consumers, home dressmakers have been active producers within family economies. They have been individuals with complex agendas expressed through their roles as wives, mothers and workers in their own right and shaped by ideologies of femininity and class." "This book represents a vital contribution to women's studies, the history of fashion and dress, design history, material culture, sociology and anthropology."--Jacket.