Lynn Knight The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women's Lives, women's literature writing, Clarice Cliff

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My next book will be a new departure for me. Miss Burnham and the Loose Thread is a novel set in the 1920s and will be published by Transworld on 20 March 2025.

'A joy of a read. A superbly researched story of post-WW1 female friendship chock-a-block with characters you'll cheer on to the very last page. I read it cover to cover in a day' - A.J. Pearce, Sunday Times bestselling author of Dear Mrs Bird.


The Button Box: The story of women in the 20th century, told through the clothes they wore

'Enchanting ... gives new meaning to micro history' - Juliet Gardiner

Hear me discuss The Button Box with Jenni Murray on Woman's Hour


Lemon Sherbet and Dolly Blue: The Story of an Accidental Family
, A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'

'It is impossible to distil the delights of this narrative, combining memoir with social history. It's a book you want to hug with joy at each turn of fortune ... Knight tells her tale scintillatingly' - The Times


Clarice Cliff, A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'

'You do not have to be an admirer of Clarice Cliff's pottery to relish this biography ... scrupulously researched ... fascinating' - Sheila Hancock, Observer Books of the Year








The Button Box: The Story of women in the 20th century, told through the clothes they wore
The Button Box: The Story of women in the 20th century, told through the clothes they wore

'An ingenious tour of domestic and social history' - Guardian

Reviews ' An ingenious tour of domestic and social history' Guardian
Miss Burnham and the Loose Thread
Miss Burnham and the Loose Thread

Rose had the sense of a thread being pulled. One tug and everything could unravel.

 

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