the seamstress by frances de pontes peebles

As she learns how to navigate the treacherous waters of Brazilian high society, the bandits' campaign against the land-owning 'Colonels' intensifies, and when a price is placed upon Luzia's head Emìlia realises she must risk everything in order to save her sister. Frances de Pontes Peebles is the author of The Seamstress and The Air You Breathe. But for the innocent dreamer, the excitement of her escape to the city is soon overshadowed by disillusion and loneliness. Whilst Luzia learns to survive in the unforgiving Brazilian outland, discovering love in the most unexpected of places, Emìlia meets the son of a wealthy doctor who seems to offer her everything she has always desired. Born in Pernambuco, Brazil, she is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

But when Luzia is abducted by a gang of rebel bandits, the sisters' lives diverge in ways they never imagined. Frances de Pontes Peebles is the author of the novel, THE SEAMSTRESS (HarperCollins), translated into nine languages and winner of the Elle Grand Prix for Fiction, the Friends of American Writers Award, and the Michener-Copernicus Fellowship. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and the Iowa Writers Workshop, she has received. Luzia, scarred by a childhood accident that has left her with a deformed arm, knows that for her, real life can not be romantically embroidered, and so she finds solace in her sewing and in the secret prayers to the saints she believes once saved her life. Frances de Pontes Peebles was born in Pernambuco, Brazil. Frances de Pontes Peebles Now in Paperback from Riverhead Books Some friendships, like romance, have the feeling of fate. Captivated by the romances she reads in magazines, she dreams of finding love in the bustle and glamour of the city.

Emìlia treasures pretty, girlish things and longs to escape from the confines of the little town. Raised as seamstresses, the sisters learn how to cut, how to mend and how to conceal. Emìlia and Luzia dos Santos, orphaned when they are children, grow up under the protection of their aunt in the hillside village of Taquaritinga, Brazil.

The seamstress by frances de pontes peebles