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15 11 y separately published work icon The Dressmaker Rosalie Ham , ( trans. Ana Mata Buil with title La modista ) Barcelona : Círculo de Lectores , 2016 Z668510 2000 single work novel (taught in 1 units) Dungatar is a small town like any other in the Victorian wheatlands - except that the women dress like Paris models. This is the story of the exotic Tilly, a talented and beautiful misfit, who returns from Europe to Dungatar to nurse her mad old mother. Her reappearance after twenty years is met with suspicion and malice from the eccentric locals until they discover her startling dressmaking skills. Gradually, she wins over the town with her fabulous creations. Then she falls in love and things start to go terribly wrong. (Source: Trove)
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