One Book One Wagga
Wagga Wagga City Library |
One Book One Wagga is Wagga’s biggest book club, a city-wide initiative in which hundreds of people read the same book over several months. This year the book is The dressmaker’s secret by Rosalie Ham. Come in and pick up your copy, and participate in Wagga Wagga’s biggest book club.
About The dressmaker’s secret: It is 1953 and Melbourne society is looking forward to coronation season, the grand balls and celebrations for the young queen-to-be. Tilly Dunnage is, however, working for a pittance in a second-rate Collins Street salon. Her talents go unappreciated, and the madame is a bully and a cheat, but Tilly has a past she is desperate to escape and good reason to prefer anonymity.
Meanwhile, Sergeant Farrat and the McSwiney clan have been searching for their resident dressmaker ever since she left Dungatar in flames. And they aren’t the only ones. The inhabitants of the town are still out for revenge (or at least someone to foot the bill for the new high street). So when Tilly’s name starts to feature in the fashion pages, the jig is up. Along with Tilly’s hopes of keeping her secrets hidden…
Details of the Gala Dinner, being held on Friday 14 May, will be released when available.