Bibliograph

The Red Ribbon, Lucy Adlington

Type

Label

The Red Ribbon, Lucy Adlington

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

Adolescent

Literary Form

novels

Main title

The Red Ribbon

Oclc number

1051003069

Responsibility statement

Lucy Adlington

Summary

As 14-year-old Ella begins her first day at work she steps into a world of silks, seams, scissors, pins, hems and trimmings. She is a dressmaker, but this is no ordinary sewing workshop. Hers are no ordinary clients. Ella has joined the seamstresses of Birkenau-Auschwitz, as readers may recognise it. Every dress she makes could mean the difference between life and death. And this place is all about survival. Ella seeks refuge from this reality, and from haunting memories, in her work and in the world of fashion and fabrics. She is faced with painful decisions about how far she is prepared to go to survive. Is her love of clothes and creativity nothing more than collaboration with her captors, or is it a means of staying alive?

Target audience

adolescent

Classification