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Fifty years earlier, its 1963, and the coat s original owner, young heiress sylvia van dam, is headed toward a disastrous marriage with a scoundrel. The plot and story take place largely in nancys hometown of river heights. Each book i write comes from a personal experience. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Her goal is to get her own exhibition in one of the local galleries and she is. Jet black and soft as velvet with a shinny rhinestone snowflake on the collar. The black velvet coat is a story about fate and friendship and love. Its a black velvet coat and i wear it all the time, even with jeans. Catherine cookson booklist catherine cookson message board. So, if you liked that book or if you think the story sounds interesting, i recommend giving this a. The black velvet coat is typical womens fiction with a dose of magical realism. Nov 19, 2015 the black velvet coat is typical womens fiction with a dose of magical realism. The two tales interwoven in this debut novel are connected through a black velvet coat, something that was ordinary in the life of sylvia, the central character of one of the tales, and extraordinary in the life of anne, the.
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