📖 Book Description
To unravel that long-lost summer, she had to follow the thread…
Florence Connelly is broken hearted. Her marriage has collapsed under the weight of the loss she shares with her husband, and her beloved grandmother has just died. Even the joy she found in dressmaking is gone.
But things change when Flo opens a box of vintage 1960s dress patterns found inside her grandmother’s wardrobe. Inside each pattern packet is a fabric swatch, a postcard from Europe and a photograph of a mysterious young woman, Nancy Moon, wearing the hand-made dress.
Flo discovers that Nancy was a distant relation who took the boat train to Paris in 1962 and never returned. With no one to stay home for, Flo decides to follow Nancy’s thread. She unravels an untold story of love and loss in her family’s past.
And begins to stitch the pieces of her own life back together.
📚 Publication Details
AUTHOR: Sarah Steele
BOOK TITLE: The Missing Pieces of Nancy Moon
PUBLISHER: Headline
PUBLICATION DATE: 6 August 2020
EDITION REVIEWED: Hardback
ISBN/ASIN: 9781472270078
PAGES: 388
About the Author
Sarah Steele is the author of The Missing Pieces of Nancy Moon, a novel inspired by her love of vintage fashion and dressmaking, with a little vicarious travel thrown in.
Originally trained as a classical musician, Sarah has always had a passion for writing and is rarely without a notebook, ready to capture an unexpected moment of inspiration. She lives in Stroud, Gloucestershire, where she can often be found writing in local cafés or walking the surrounding hills with her dog.
Her love of vintage fashion, handmade treasures and the stories behind her writing can also be found on social media at @sarahsteeleauthor.
My Review
I received this book after signing up to be a part of The Book Fairies’ campaign on publication day of The Missing Pieces of Nancy Moon.
On opening the parcel and seeing the cover image for the first time I knew I just HAD to read this book.
Whilst I would not normally choose to read a book partially set in the 1960s it was sitting on my desk just calling out to be read. I am so pleased I took the time to sit and enjoy it. I enjoyed it immensely and I highly recommend.
This is a story told over two timelines – Flo in present day and Nancy from the 1960s. The author has paced the story perfectly.
I enjoyed the way the story focused on the dressmaking patterns and Flo re-created the dresses to help her on her quest. The way in which the author describes the dresses and the locations is just magical. I could picture every scene and given I was reading whilst we are in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic and unable to travel I felt I had travelled across Europe with Flo.
I understand this is the author, Sarah Steele’s debut novel and it is easy to see how much she loves dressmaking and I look forward to reading more.
This book has opened up a whole new genre of novels I previously would not have considered reading and I an extremely thankful for that.
Thank you Sarah Steele, Headline and The Book Fairies too!
DISCLOSURE: I received a review copy of this book via The Book Fairies.
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MoMoBookDiary Index
- Author
- Sarah Steele
- Title
- The Missing Pieces of Nancy Moon
- Publisher
- Headline
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Setting
- Paris, France
- Source
- The Book Fairies
- Date Read
- July 2020
- Review Shared
- Archive Checked
- Sep.2026 (mcc)
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