INTRODUCING ROSE BURNHAM: DESIGNER, DRESSMAKER . . .DETECTIVE?

'A joy of a read. A superbly researched story of post-WW1 female friendship chock-a-block with characters you’ll cheer on to the very last page, I read it cover to cover in a day

South-east London, 1925. Talented, ambitious designer-dressmaker Rose Burnham knows well both the strains of her profession and the secrets it can yield.

Newly established in her own business, she and her sisters are privy to the hushed conversations that unspool behind the fitting room’s closed doors. So when a major client finds herself the victim of a deception, it is Rose she tells. Driven by the shortage of men following the Great War, Miss Holmes had engaged the services of a matrimonial agency, only to be cheated out of her inheritance by a fake suitor.

Rose is determined to bring the swindler to justice. To begin with, playing the detective is a grand adventure, but as pressures mount and an old friend receives a troubling string of poison-pen letters, Rose discovers there is more to investigating – and these investigations – than she’d bargained for. Rose had the sense of a thread being pulled. One tug and everything could unravel . . .

Copies of Miss Burnham are available in the shop or from our online shop here: Miss Burnham and the Loose Thread by Lynn Knight — Wave of Nostalgia

Lynn will read from her book, answer questions and sign copies.

The event is at 7PM on 10th April at Wave of Nostalgia, 74 Main Street Haworth BD22 8DP or on Zoom

Tickets are £5 and include 10% off all books in the shop at the event.

If you wish to collect tickets on the door or join by Zoom, please select the Pickup option on checkout..

If you wish to join us online via Zoom just select the Zoom option and we’ll send you joining instructions nearer the time.