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The silver thread

Indian Ocean, 1841. Female convicts, bound for Australia on board the sailing ship Rajah, stitch an intricate quilt together and share stories of their crimes. Rhia Mahoney, niece of a murdered merchant, has a very different story to tell... Weaving death, love and adventure into a panoramic tale of the world at the height of Empire, The Silver Thread is a compelling murder mystery, set during the great age of sail. -- Cover.

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  • "Indian Ocean, 1841. Female convicts, bound for Australia on board the sailing ship Rajah, stitch an intricate quilt together and share stories of their crimes. Rhia Mahoney, niece of a murdered merchant, has a very different story to tell..."
  • "A panoramic historical novel of rare beauty set between Victorian England, Ireland and Australia during the great age of sail."
  • "Als een jonge Ierse vrouw de zelfmoord van haar oom wil onderzoeken, wordt ze verdacht van diefstal en veroordeeld tot zeven jaar dwangarbeid in Australië."
  • "Indian Ocean, 1841. Female convicts, bound for Australia on board the sailing ship Rajah, stitch an intricate quilt together and share stories of their crimes. Rhia Mahoney, niece of a murdered merchant, has a very different story to tell... Weaving death, love and adventure into a panoramic tale of the world at the height of Empire, The Silver Thread is a compelling murder mystery, set during the great age of sail. -- Cover."@en
  • "The day was dove grey, and silk. A melancholic cloth that whispered and rustled. Who could say what it foretold.' Dublin, 1840: Rhia Mahoney watches in despair as her father's linen warehouse goes up in flames. Her family is ruined. Her imagined future, full of pattern and colour, plum brocades and beetle-green taffeta, crumbles to ashes. Seeking work as a governess in dismal London, Rhia's life is changed beyond all imagination when her uncle, a shipping merchant, commits suicide. Rhia cannot - will not - believe he would take his own life, but before she can investigate, she is accused of a crime she didn't commit, and forced to board a prison ship bound for New South Wales. The voyage is one of dry biscuits and endless sea, made bearable by the women's daily chore: to sew scraps of cloth into an elaborate quilt. What Rhia does not realise is that with every stich, she binds herself closer to a journey of discovery that will not end in Australia ..."@en

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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Large type books"@en

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  • "Une fibre meurtrière roman"
  • "Une fibre meurtrière : roman"
  • "The silver thread"@en
  • "The silver thread"
  • "Une fibre meurtrière"
  • "Silver Thread"@en

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