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  1. LIZ TRENOW
  2. Under a Wartime Sky
  4. PROLOGUE
  5. PART ONE:
  6. THE MAGIC EYE
  8. 1
  10. 2
  12. 3
  14. 4
  16. 5
  18. 6
  20. 7
  22. 8
  24. 9
  26. 10
  28. 11
  30. 12
  32. 13
  34. 14
  36. 15
  38. 16
  40. 17
  41. PART TWO:
  42. WAR
  44. 18
  46. 19
  48. 20
  50. 21
  52. 22
  54. 23
  56. 24
  58. 25
  60. 26
  62. 27
  64. 28
  66. 29
  68. EPILOGUE
  69. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  70. In Love and War
  72. 1
  73. RUBY

‘Alice Palmer. Pleased to meet you.’

Praise for Liz Trenow

‘Liz Trenow sews together the strands of past and present as delicately as the exquisite stitching on the quilt which forms the centrepiece of the story’

LUCINDA RILEY

‘Extraordinary, fascinating . . . deeply rooted in history’

Midweek, BBC Radio 4

‘What a delicious read The Silk Weaver is. I was enchanted by this novel set in eighteenth-century Spitalfields; meticulously researched, richly detailed, the brilliantly structured story shimmered as the threads of silk wound through its pages. I devoured it in two days and was gripped from start to finish. The characters shine too and Anna is an absolute triumph. A fabulous book’

DINAH JEFFERIES

‘Liz Trenow draws us in so that we inhabit her world, and it was a wrench to put the book down after the last beautifully written page’

GILL PAUL

‘Totally fascinating . . . a book to savour’

KATE FURNIVALL

‘Push back the gorgeous brocade curtains of The Silk Weaver’s period detail and romance and you find a window on eighteenth-century London that, with its prejudice and divisions, is surprisingly pertinent today’

KATE RIORDAN

‘I absolutely loved The Silk Weaver. Liz writes beautifully, and I adored the characters of Anna and Henri – their love was so delicately and believably evoked. The background motifs of the silks and the floral designs, and the political/social context which made their relationship so difficult, are also brilliantly done. I really couldn’t wait to get back to it each evening’

TRACY REES

‘An assured debut with a page-turning conclusion’

Daily Express

‘A novel about the human spirit – Liz Trenow paints with able prose a picture of the prejudices that bind us and the love that sets us free . . . Splendid’

PAM JENOFF

‘An intriguing patchwork of past and present, upstairs and downstairs, hope and despair’

DAISY GOODWIN

‘The aftermath of war can be ferocious. This gentle and thoughtful story concentrates on the positives, without ignoring the destruction and pain of an epic conflict’

Daily Mail

UNDER A WARTIME SKY

Liz Trenow is a former journalist who spent fifteen years working for regional and national newspapers, and BBC radio and television news, before turning her hand to fiction. Under a Wartime Sky is her seventh novel. She lives in East Anglia with her artist husband, and they have two grown-up daughters and three beautiful grandchildren.

Find out more at www.liztrenow.com,

or join her on Facebook.com/LizTrenow

or Twitter @LizTrenow.

By Liz Trenow

The Last Telegram

The Forgotten Seamstress

The Poppy Factory

The Silk Weaver

In Love and War

The Dressmaker of Draper’s Lane

Under a Wartime Sky

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First published 2020 by Pan Books

This electronic edition first published 2020 by Pan Books

an imprint of Pan Macmillan

The Smithson, 6 Briset Street, London EC1M 5NR

Associated companies throughout the world

www.panmacmillan.com

ISBN 978-1-5098-7985-4

Copyright © Liz Trenow 2020

Cover Images: Figure © Rekha Arcangel/Arcangel Images, Background © Clynt Garnham/Alamy, Foreground © WWPhotography/Alamy, Planes © Guy Bell/Alamy