Patch Work - WINNER OF THE 2021 PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE - Bog af Claire Wilcox - Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2021 PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE\As skillful and oblique in its structure as the precious gowns she describes.\ -Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, \Best Books of the Year\An expert and intimate exploration of a life in clothes: their memories and stories, enchantments and spells.A linen sheet, smooth with age. A box of buttons, mother-of-pearl and plastic, metal and glass, rattling and untethered. A hundred-year-old pin, forgotten in a hem. Fragile silks and fugitive dyes, fans and crinolines, and..