Just in time for the centennial anniversary from the sinking of the Titanic comes a vivid, romantic, and relentlessly compelling historical novel in regards to a spirited youthful woman who survives the devastation and then find herself embroiled in the media frenzy left in the wake of the tragedy.

Tess, an aspiring seamstress, feels she’s had an incredibly lucky break when she is hired by famous developer Female Lucile Duff Gordon to be always a personal maid around the Titanic’s doomed voyage. Once on board, Tess about The Dressmaker catches the eye of two males, one a roughly-hewn but kind sailor as well as the various other an enigmatic Chicago millionaire. But in the fourth night, catastrophe strikes.

Amidst the chaos and desperate urging of two completely different suitors, Tess is among the last people allowed on a lifeboat. Tess’s sailor also manages to survive unharmed, see to Female Duff Gordon’s questionable actions during the tragedy. Others-including the gallant Midwestern tycoon-are not lucky.

On dry property, rumors about the survivors start to circulate, and Female Duff Gordon quickly turns into the subject of media scorn and later on, the hearings within the Titanic. Established against a historical tragedy but informed from a completely fresh angle, The Dressmaker is an atmospheric delight filled with all of the period’s glitz and glamour, all of the raw feelings of the nationwide tragedy and all the contradictory feelings of young love.