![]() ![]() Phoebe listens to the poignant story of the little blue coat not knowing that it is to have a profound and uplifting connection with her own life. ![]() At first Therese wishes not to reveal the coat's history but, as the two women become friends, she opens up. In Therese's wardrobe Phoebe also finds a child's sky-blue winter coat, from wartime France. But what of the past lives these clothes have lived she often wonders? What stories would they tell if they could speak? One day Phoebe meets an elderly French woman, Therese, who wishes to sell her some elegant dresses and suits. So Phoebe takes refuge in her work - restoring these wonderful old clothes to their former glory so that they can go on to have new lives. At the same time she is coping with the recent loss of her best friend, Emma. In my eighth novel, 'A Vintage Affair', the heroine, Phoebe Swift, has just opened a vintage dress shop in Blackheath. A Vintage Affair published by HarperCollins in paperback January 19th 2009. ![]()
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