The Lacemaker's Secret

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In a small village, three sisters' lives are shadowed by secrets that refuse to stay buried. For fans of Sarah Penner and Jessie Burton.

1847. In a small lacemaking community, sisters Alma, Flora, and Gwen work around the clock on a wedding veil of extraordinary beauty and precision - work their future depends on.When two clairvoyants settle in the village, residents quickly divide over whether their gifts are divine or a sham. Still marked by the stigma of their mother's suicide, Alma fights to escape a betrothal forced on her by her embittered father to the odious Edmund Bentinck.Only Gwen, the youngest, refuses to accept the verdict. Convinced the clairvoyants can reveal the truth, she begins asking questions. Will she uncover a secret that brings peace, or one that shatters their world?

About the author

Madeleine Reiss was born in Athens. She worked for some years in an agency for street performers and comedians and then as a journalist and publicist. She has two sons and lives in Cambridge with her husband and her younger son. Someone To Watch Over Me is her first novel.