The Dressmaker

Elizabeth Birkelund Oberbeck

Original title: The dressmaker

earliest edition we have, 2006 Hutchinson, 2007 306 pages

Claude Reynaud is a bit of a throwback, an old-fashioned dressmaker working in a cluttered studio outside modern-day Paris, quietly designing his famous gowns by hand. Every spring he ushers pretty young society brides into his studio, measures them, and designs their dresses without ever contemplating for himself the sort of romance that will lead these ladies and their grooms to the altar. But one afternoon a woman...

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Editions we hold

The Dressmaker paperback · 2016 · Picador · 320 pages · 9781250106964
Dressmaker edition · 2012 · Penguin Random House · 400 pages · 9781446429136
The Dressmaker paperback · 2007 · Picador · 320 pages · 9780312426927
Dressmaker edition · 2007 · Penguin Random House · 400 pages · 9780099502876
The dressmaker edition · 2007 · Hutchinson · 306 pages · 9780091796938
Dressmaker edition · 2006 · Holt & Company, Henry · 9781429985147
The dressmaker edition · 2006 · Henry Holt and Co. · 306 pages · 9780805080339

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