Last night my book club discussed The Forgotten Seamstress by Liz Trenow. The author lives in London and grew up next door to her family's silk manufacturing company. The story goes back and forth in time between current time and the years before world war two. The seamstress who was forgotten was a child in an orphanage in London. Her outstanding sewing skills were noticed by a visitor so she was taken to sew for the royal family. Things happened. She became pregnant and like many women of that time; not only in London but all over the world, she was taken to an institution against her will. She delivered the baby. The baby was taken from her and given away. She was still committed to the asylum. Who wouldn't be crazy after a life like that? She sewed her secrets into a quilt. The book club members agreed the author did a nice job up until the last chapter when all the loose ends were tied up too quickly and too far fetched to be believable. Other than that it was a good book.
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