The Dutch House by Anne Patchett is a “richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go.”  A Single Thread  by Tracy Chevalier is about a “surplus woman,” who lost her man in the Great War. Doomed to spinsterhood and charity, she leaves for Winchester, where she finds community and hope among the women who embroider for the cathedral.