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A really engaging read, with beautifully constructed characters and a well paced story. The author has clearly researched the topic thoroughly and has built a wonderful story around it. Highly recommend. An excellent read; I want a film of it too! Well-researched and beautifully written, I was gripped from start to finish. As one of the other reviewers says, it needs to be better-promoted. I am recommending it to everyone I can think of anyway. Underlying the stories of two fascinating women - daughter and mother - sat two North Sea countries and several cities, two destructive world wars, periods of extreme upheaval and change - philosophical and cultural and well as political and embittered; sewn-together with a most sensitively applied common thread. The research, and the research behind the research, was cleverly managed and set into play throughout.

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Helen McNamara is an interior designer, architectural illustrator and author. She studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, then worked as a designer in London and Argyll before moving to Glasgow to take up a design lecturing post for 17 years. In the early days of the growth of Internet usage she worked with BBC Education to pilot online learning materials for the design of homes and managed a project to implement the first high speed broadband network across ten colleges in Glasgow. In 2000 she moved to a government learning and skills organisation, where she held a senior management role until 2011. Her passion is the architecture of homes and in 2017 she published her first novel, The Architectress, a story of three women that pays homage to the Rietveld Schroeder House in Utrecht and the transformation of 19th century homes for 21st century living. She now lives in a small 21st century apartment in Glasgow.

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