Tapiser

Emily Harris, recently divorced and returned to her hometown, renews her relationship with her exotic grandmother Eleanor, over the objections of her mother Elaine, with whom she has her own fraught relationship. Over time it transpires that Eleanor, arch and secretive, has a passion which she wishes to imbue in Emily–but Eleanor dies before the mystery is revealed in full. On her death, Eleanor leaves Emily an important clue: a small hand-loomed tapestry, possibly made by an ancestor.

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