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The Hatmaker’s Gift
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In 1880, London milliner Mabel Arkwright gives her assistant Emily Pearson a broad-brimmed hat dyed a distinctive pale gold. After inheriting the business, an exhausted Emily travels to Nice, where the hat attracts the attention of Paul Anderson Steerman. His courtship brings disgrace and tragedy rather than the secure future she expects.
The consequences extend through Emily’s children and grandchildren as the Victorian world gives way to a new century and the First World War. Millinery, business ownership and family secrecy connect a private betrayal to a multigenerational story of women preserving both economic independence and emotional survival.
This book has also been published under the title The Golden Straw.
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