THE SILVER THREAD (OLD TITLE: THE RAJAH QUILT)
Book ID/图书代码： 07468510B42466
English Summary/英文概要： Dublin 1840. When a storehouse fire ruins Mahoney Linen, Rhia Mahoney is persuaded by her uncle Ryan to join him in London and seek employment there. Lodging with the Quaker widow, Antonia Blake, Rhia’s dream of becoming a textile designer is fulfilled when she is given a position at the Montgomery Emporium. But events move swiftly as Ryan’s suicide triggers a series of events, which result in Rhia being convicted of a crime she didn’t commit and transported to Australia. As Rhia’s fate becomes entangled with the wider world - the first opium war, the fledgling art of photography and the rapid industrialisation of the cloth trade – her momentous journey eventually resolves a panoramic conspiracy plot encompassing a murder from the deep past as well as crimes from the recent past and present. THE RAJAH QUILT is an outstanding historical conspiracy novel, grippingly and elegantly executed at every level.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 勇敢獨立的女主角Rhia，卻活在保守的19世紀
面對壓抑的大環境、內心衝突、火噬家園、顛沛流離、含冤受罪
以及中英兩國因貿易而一觸即發的戰火
她該如何洗清罪嫌，開拓自己的人生道路?英國雜誌《The Big Issue》稱許Kylie Fitzpatrick：對維多利亞年代的細緻描寫值得稱道！
1840年，都柏林，在這女權低落的維多利亞時代，有自我想法的Rhia Mahoney正面臨婚姻無法自主，獨立思想不被允許的家族爭執中。然而她的命運卻因為一場大火徹底改變…。
這場大火燒毀所有家產，讓以經商維生的家族分崩離析，Rhia和叔叔只好離鄉背井，到倫敦另謀出路。當她好不容易一圓當紡織品設計師的夢想時，卻傳來叔叔自殺，父親的同事身亡的消息，而Rhia也莫名被判有罪！她被強行押送到澳大利亞，為了洗清無妄之災，她必須查明真相。橫跨英國、印度、中國、澳洲，時逢中英鴉片戰爭，秘密真相就隱藏在茫茫大海兩端的異國，充滿無限商機卻又藏污納垢的國際貿易當中…。(Claire & Eva)
Awards/获奖情况：Amazon Kindle top 100 promotion for the whole of SeptemberReviews
“Kylie Fitzpatrick’s new novel is impressively researched and closely imagined. An exciting, spirited and ambitious tale.” - Andrew Miller, winner of the 2011 Costa Book of the Year Award for his novel PURE
“a novel of genuine power and conviction”- Sunday Times Culture Magazine
“Fitzpatrick’s world is well-researched and many-hued, filled with references that enrich the reader’s experience.” For Books’ Sake
About the Author/作者介绍： Kylie Fitzpatrick has worked in drama and documentary television production as a script editor and researcher in the UK and America, and is a graduate of the MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. She is the author of TAPESTRY and THE NINTH STONE, and lives in Somerset with her daughter.
Kylie Fitzpatrick曾當過英國及美國戲劇和電視紀錄片的劇本編輯以及研究員，擁有巴斯思帕大學(Bath Spa University)創意寫作碩士學位。她的著作有《Tapestry》和和廣受好評的《The Ninth Stone》，作品已翻譯成11種語言。目前她與女兒一起居住在英國索美塞特郡(Somerset)。
Format:电子手稿
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：France(Actes Noirs/Actes Sud), UK(Head of Zeus), Germany(Ullstein)
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