The answer to Tess’s dreams is the Titanic. Staring out the window of her mistress’ house, Tess dreams of leaving and starting over in America. Each story ends the same: The unsinkable ship plummets to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.īut Kate Alcott, the pen name for journalist Patricia O’Brien, brings a fresh angle in her novel “The Dressmaker.” She begins by introducing Tess, an English servant and seamstress. The sinking of the Titanic is one of the blackest marks caused by human error, and it’s a story that’s been retold countless times. Set against a historical tragedy but told from a completely fresh angle, The Dressmaker is an atmospheric delight filled with all the period's glitz and glamour, all the raw feelings of a national tragedy and all the contradictory emotions of young love." THE DRESSMAKER ," by Kate Alcott, Doubleday, $25.95, 320 pages (f) On dry land, rumors about the survivors begin to circulate, and Lady Duff Gordon quickly becomes the subject of media scorn and later, the hearings on the Titanic. Others-including the gallant Midwestern tycoon-are not so lucky. Tess’s sailor also manages to survive unharmed, witness to Lady Duff Gordon’s questionable actions during the tragedy. But on the fourth night, disaster strikes.Īmidst the chaos and desperate urging of two very different suitors, Tess is one of the last people allowed on a lifeboat. Once on board, Tess catches the eye of two men, one a roughly-hewn but kind sailor and the other an enigmatic Chicago millionaire. Tess, an aspiring seamstress, thinks she's had an incredibly lucky break when she is hired by famous designer Lady Lucile Duff Gordon to be a personal maid on the Titanic's doomed voyage.
Just in time for the centennial anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic comes a vivid, romantic, and relentlessly compelling historical novel about a spirited young woman who survives the disaster only to find herself embroiled in the media frenzy left in the wake of the tragedy.
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