![]() ![]() I began to imagine what might happen were the silk merchant’s house to be used in this way, perhaps for the first intake of girls. There is a famous boarding school in that town, and it has taken over some of the buildings as boarding houses for its pupils. I also discovered, rather later, that the building was rumoured to be haunted. Later in the same trip, I was in my old home town and discovered that one of the buildings in the high street, originally home to an 18 th century silk merchant, had recently been restored. ![]() ![]() I stopped in front of a luminous silk gown, woven in the 18 th century and the pattern of which was designed by one of the few women working as such at the time, Anna-Maria Garthwaite. What was the inspiration for this story arc?Ī few years ago I was at London’s V&A Museum, in my favourite place there, the costume gallery. The Silk House centres around the titular Silk House boarding school, a building with a mysterious past, and weaves together the stories of three women, past and present, all of whom have stories that intersect because of the Silk House. From the bestselling author of The Botanist’s Daughter and The Forgotten Letters of Esther Durrant, comes The Silk House, a spellbinding story of a mysterious boarding school harbouring a centuries-old secret… We were lucky enough to catch Kayte for a few quick questions about The Silk House.ĪR: In three words, describe The Silk House to AusRom readers: ![]()
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