The Embroiderer

I feel very lucky to have been offered the chance to review this book, I absolutely loved it. For the most part the book focuses around Sophia, who came across as a very powerful character who has to deal with so much pain throughout her life… but there’s so much more to the book. It’s covers multipl......more

If you love historical fiction this is a beautifully written novel. The story is about a Greek family from the middle of the 19th century to the late twentieth century. The Embroiderer covers both world wars and is set against the backdrop of the Greek War of Independence. The novel, from the massac......more

Review of “The Embroiderer” It took me a while to read this book. Not because it was uninteresting, or difficult to follow, or badly written. On the contrary, each and every page or chapter either opened a new or a continuing saga of a family as its history stretched across the period of Asia Minor......more

I thoroughly enjoyed this debut novel by Kathryn Gauci which has a breath-taking narrative stretching over two centuries from the Greek War of Independence, the Greco/Turkish war of the 1920s to the Second World War. It would be a tall order for any writer to bring these tumultuous periods into shar......more

When I looked at and opened the book, my reaction was ‘It’s a saga. Not the kind of book I normally read’. What a lesson I had. The adage, ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’, in my case is replaced by, ‘don’t judge a book by its blurb or its publicity’. As I read it, it did everything the best novels......more