GENERAL The sewing machine

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From the Publisher About the Book The star of this novel is a vintage sewing machine.

The novel is book-ended by Jean, in 1911 and Fred in 2016. Their interleaved family histories are revealed through narrative, notebooks and blog posts.

Jean works at the Singer factory and she is about to go on strike, along with more than ten thousand other workers.

It changes her life.

In an act of defiance, she leaves a message hidden in a sewing machine, where it will be found by the first owner.

More than a hundred years later, thirty-something Fred, a man who knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing, inherits his grandfather’s flat.

In order to capitalize on his good fortune, he decides to sell as much of the contents as he can, including his grandmother’s old sewing machine.

He is frustrated to discover that the mechanism is jammed and when he investigates, he finds a brown paper package hidden in the base.

His family history is laid out before him in a sort of code, but he has to decipher it before he can unpick the secrets of four generations.

Like Jean, Fred's life is about to be turned upside down and he must find a way to survive the changes ahead.

This is a novel for anyone who goes to jumble sales, charity shops, American Yard Sales or Australian Op Shops.

It’s for people who wonder who owned that old biscuit tin or the tatty cookbook with the writing in the margins, and who are intrigued by the stories these objects might tell.

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