Download or read book The Seamstress written by María Dueñas and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aged 12, Sira Quiroga was apprenticed to a Madrid dressmaker. As she masters the seamstress's art, her life seems to be clearly mapped out - until she falls passionately in love and flees with her seductive lover. But in Morocco she is betrayed and left penniless. As civil war engulfs Spain, Sira finds that she cannot return and so turns to her one true skill.