We also follow fabric pattern designer Mary-Louise Stephenson in the 1700s as she tries to break into a male-dominanted industry with her unique floral designs. In the late 1700s, maid Rowan Caswell finds herself working for a silk merchant whose business dealings are not all they seem. In the present day, we follow Thea Rust as she leaves Australia following her father’s death to teach history at the elite boarding school he attended in Wilshire, England. Filled with Nunn’s trademark feminist themes and rich settings, this was a perfect read to sink into. Anchored around the eponymous silk merchant’s house – an elite boarding school accommodation building in contemporary times – we watch the lives of grieving women unfold, as past dark deeds come to light. Intoxicating, haunting and inspired by the author's background, The Silk House is the exceptional new Gothic mystery by Kayte Nunn.The Silk House is Kayte Nunn’s latest dual timeline historical/contemporary fiction offering, and it is a deliciously Gothic one. Arriving in the market town of Oxleigh, she brings with her a length of fabric woven with a pattern of deadly plants that will have far-reaching consequences for all who dwell in the Silk House. In London, Mary-Louise Stephenson lives amid the clatter of the weaving trade and dreams of becoming a silk designer, a job that is the domain of men. She is thrust into a new and dangerous world where her talent for herbs and healing soon attracts attention. In the late 1700s, Rowan Caswell leaves her village to work in the home of an English silk merchant. She is to stay with them in Silk House, a building with a long and troubled past, where the shadows hide more mysteries than she could ever imagine. The spellbinding story of a mysterious boarding school sheltering a centuries-old secret by the best-selling author of The Botanist's Daughter.Īustralian history teacher Thea Rust arrives at an exclusive boarding school in the British countryside only to find that she is to look after the first intake of girls in its 150-year history.
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