![]() ![]() ![]() While the war-torn world of 1940s Occupied Paris is brought to life in spectacular fashion, with a strong sense of time and place and a gripping story with real stakes driving its narrative, the sections set in modern day Paris fail to match up, resulting in an unbalanced novel with a great premise that never quite manages to come together, despite how much it tries.īeginning in Paris in 2017, The Dressmaker’s Gift opens with the description of a beautiful dress from the 1940s, perfectly stitched together from fabric scraps to create a unique, imperfect whole. Despite its synopsis promising a complex, intergenerational tale of family secrets, wartime betrayals and a dark past to unravel, it becomes very clear early on that the Dressmaker’s Gift by Fiona Valpy is actually more a story of two disparate parts. ![]()
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