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FOR RELEASE OCTOBER 2010
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The DRESSMAKER
The DRESSMAKER
Posie Graeme-Evans
Posie Graeme-Evans
In an unforgiving world,
In an unforgiving world,
world,
survival is never black and white
survival is never black and white
ck and white
Set in 1850s England, at the height of Victoria’s reign, Posie Graeme-Evans' glorious fourth novel tells of a
woman ahead of her time. Ellen Gowan is the most famous, and sought after, dress designer in London.
Now her gowns adorn the ladies of England’s aristocracy but life wasn’t
always so blessed.
The only surviving child of a scholarly village parson and a beautiful
woman disowned by her family when she married for love, Ellen’s country
childhood was happy though impoverished. But tragedy strikes on her
thirteenth birthday. Her beloved father dies in a sudden accident.
Penniless, Ellen and her mother must now depend on the uncertain
kindness of long-estranged family.
Life takes Ellen down strange roads of opulence and depravity until, alone
in the world, she lands in the arms of the handsome but dangerous Raoul
de Valentin. They marry and set up a dressmaking business but when
Ellen finds she is with child, Raoul abandons her. Determined she and her
daughter will survive, Ellen begins her long climb to success. At first she
toils in a dress factory but later, with the backing of the man she has
always secretly loved, Ellen opens her own salon. She is an instant
success, yet fear of social disgrace forces her to lie about her past. To the
world and to her child, Ellen is a widow.
Years pass, and Ellen has become Madame Gowan, the beautiful dressmaker of choice to the Great Six
Hundred, the noble families of England. But then Raoul de Valentin returns. And he threatens to destroy all
that Ellen has achieved.
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THE DRESSMAKER
Posie Graeme-Evans
ISBN: 9780731814725
Format: Paperback
Price: $32.99
FOR RELEASE OCTOBER 2010
THE DRESSMAKER is a passionate odyssey that carries readers from the teeming squalor of London’s
brothels to the ballrooms of England’s aristocrats. It tells the story of a true heroine and her quest to find
success, to find love, and to survive in an era when to be independent, and a woman, was not just
scandalous, it was – sometimes – terrifying.
Sacrifice, passion, social intrigue and mystery. Be swept back in time to the world of Ellen Gowan.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
In a career spanning over 25 years Posie Graeme-Evans has embraced writing,
directing and producing as one of Australia’s pre-eminent television
creator/producers. Named by Variety Magazine as one of “Twenty Significant
Women working in Film & Television” in 2002 – along with Meryl Streep – amongst
many other credits, Posie was the creator/producer of the phenomenally
successful and much loved McLeod’s Daughters and co-creator of Hi-5. The Director
of Drama for the Nine Network, Australia, from December 2002 to November 2005
Posie left this role to concentrate on her career as a novelist and her Sydney-based
production company, Millennium Pictures with husband and creative partner
Andrew Blaxland.
**Posie Graeme-Evans will be available for interviews from October 2010**
For more information
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Tel: 02 9383 4038
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E: niki@lanterngroup.com.au
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