The tenth gift / Jane Johnson

This story takes us to Cornwall and Morocco, interweaving past and present with great elegance. In the early 1600s Islamic Corsairs raid the Cornish coast for their slave markets. A feisty young woman, skilled at embroidery, survives and against all odds finds love in a place that could not be more different to the country of her birth. Centuries down the track another young woman, also an embroiderer, is given a book that will change her life and, like a lode star, will lead her to family she never knew she had. Now and Then connect, a mystery is solved, and love is thrown into the bargain. A read that made me travel through time and space.