Published in hardback 8 July 2010.
Paperback to be published 14 October 2010.

Rosy Thornton’s fourth novel, THE TAPESTRY OF LOVE (Headline Review) includes in its acknowledgments a special mention for ‘my friends at Litopia, especially the denizens of Pinter House’. To those who kindly read and commented on its opening chapter it is known as ‘the book with the sheep’, after a dramatic opening scene which depicts the transhumance: the mass movement of sheep and other livestock from their summer grazing on the high mountain pastures of the French Cévennes to their winter home in the valleys.

Travelling in the other direction is Englishwoman Catherine Parkstone, who has sold her house in Buckinghamshire and is moving to a tiny hamlet in the cévenol hills. Her divorce in the past and her children grown, she is free to make a new start, and set up in business as a seamstress. But will it prove the rural idyll of which she dreamed? For this is a harsh and lonely place when you’re no longer just on holiday. There is French bureaucracy to contend with, and the mountain weather, and the reserve of her neighbours – including the intriguing Patrick Castagnol. And that’s before the arrival of Catherine’s forthright sister, Bryony…

THE TAPESTRY OF LOVE is the story of how a woman falls in love with a place and its people: a lyrical portrait of a landscape, a community and a fragile way of life.

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