![]() The addition of the enigmatic housekeeper, Dame Hicks, in the present day, presages a sense of the unknown. ![]() Rowan’s personal growth follows a particularly interesting arc, as she is tasked by the merchant’s wife with the ultimate in herbal concoctions in dangerously suspicious times. She finds herself playing housemistress at the Silk House to thirteen boarders who are the first female students ever to attend the school.Īll three stories are entwined well, with time and place firmly grounded, and the changes in the town over the centuries well-described. In the present day, Thea, a history teacher and hockey coach, accepts a job at an exclusive boys’ academy in Oxleigh. Mary-Louise is an impoverished pattern-drawer in 1768 London whose designs modeled on wildflowers and herbs, both efficacious and poisonous, are like nothing seen before. In 1768, Rowan, a young maid with a healing gift and the sight, joins the household of a silk merchant in Oxleigh. ![]() ![]() Three storylines in two timelines make up this evocative tale. ![]()
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