Heroine yearns to build meaningful life in `Single Thread´
(WorldNews Entertainment)

“A Single Thread: a Novel,� Viking, by Tracy Chevalier Violet Speedwell seems an unlikely heroine at the opening of Tracy Chevalier’s “A Single Thread.� She’s moved 12 miles away from her overbearing mother to rent a small room and eke out a living as a typist for an insurance company. Friendless and penniless - she makes so little money that she’s literally starving -...