Village Fortunes (Turnham Malpas 17) - Plot & Excerpts
every Monday afternoon. They were expecting to begin work on a tapestry for a church in Culworth. To those outside the group it might have sounded small beer compared to the mural they’d just had hung in a cathedral in Hampshire; but the church was newly built in a stark minimalist style and was proving to be a very difficult challenge. Two designs had already been rejected, and Evie had decided they’d all have to go and visit the church and make their own contribution to the style and colours choices. The church committee wanted to attend but Evie, gentle, kindly Evie, had put her foot down and refused to tell them when they’d be going for their in-depth conference. So, instead of meeting in the church hall to embroider, they got into two cars and went into Culworth, parked outside the gates of the new church, walked up the path to the main entrance and went to stand in front of the piece of bare stone wall where the tapestry would be hung. ‘It needs a big statement, something no one can pass without stopping to look.
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