The Silver Thread

London, 1875: Bel wins a coveted job as a designer at the newly opened Liberty store, and travels to Tokyo with fellow designer Hiro in search of silks and inspiration. Paris, 1985: newly qualified art curator Mira is hired to catalogue a Paris apartment that has been locked for decades, the home of famed designer Isobel Bright, and sets out to discover why it was sealed. Three cities, two women and a hundred years are bound together in Kate Lord Brown's sweeping dual-timeline story of love across cultures.