The Seamstress by Geraldine Wooller

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to corners and edges. Marks on top and right foredges.

Jo narrates the story of her strong, passionate mother, Willa, whose gradual slide into dementia shifts them into a new and challenging relationship.

Willa's life since arriving from Scotland as a young woman is re-created in vignettes: her spectacularly wrong choice in husband, the eccentricities of her family, the community of friends that sustain her, and her enduring capacity for joy.

In the story, Jo also confronts her own life choices as a woman addicted to perpetually worrying about something or another. And certainly addicted to love.

Infused with abundant warmth and wry humour, The Seamstress is a memorable tale of friendship between women. (back cover)