In times of grave discomfort, Tracy Chevalier offers a welcome respite in her gentle new book of stitchery and manners, “A Single Thread” (Viking, 318 pp., ★★★½ out of four stars). Chevalier, author ...

“A Single Thread” by Tracy Chevalier is a wonderful story filled with rich description. The story is set in Winchester, England in the early 1930s. Violet Speedwell is grieving the loss of her fiancé ...

Tracy Chevalier says she learned the needlepoint stitches used by the women in A Single Thread while researching the book. Violet Speedwell is a "surplus woman." She lost her brother and her fiancé to ...

“A Single Thread” proves a rather ironic title for the quiet tapestry that Tracy Chevalier has created in this novel set in 1932, in England, after the Great War. Violet Speedwell is a member of the ...