miriam blythe

An awful lot of research has gone into this murder mystery whodunit novel about the dictatorship of the fashion industry; the semiotics of clothes, the changing techniques and materials in making clothes, new shopping paradigms and the delicate gender issues of our own time. And a sense of Armageddon is nigh is implied in the sewing metaphors,' the weft threads always build into the bigger picture’ the ‘embroidery of alienation'; 'cross-stitch of conspiracy' and ‘I feel a bit chintzy And the novel raises all of these styles and issues critically and hilariously.