The Dressmaker Audiobook (Free)

Just with time for the centennial anniversary from the sinking of the Titanic comes a vivid, intimate, and relentlessly compelling historical novel in regards to a spirited youthful woman who survives the disaster only to find herself embroiled in the media frenzy left in the wake of the tragedy.

Tess, an aspiring seamstress, feels she’s had a remarkably lucky break when she actually is hired by famous designer Lady Lucile Duff Gordon to be a personal maid over the Titanic’s doomed voyage. Once up to speed, Tess about The Dressmaker catches the attention of two men, one a roughly-hewn but kind sailor as well as the other an enigmatic Chicago millionaire. But around the fourth night, catastrophe strikes.

Amidst the chaos and desperate urging of two very different suitors, Tess is one of the last people allowed on a lifeboat. Tess’s sailor also manages to survive unharmed, see to Lady Duff Gordon’s doubtful actions through the tragedy. Others-including the gallant Midwestern tycoon-are not lucky.

On dry property, gossips about the survivors begin to circulate, and Lady Duff Gordon quickly becomes the subject of media scorn and later, the hearings around the Titanic. Set against a historical tragedy but informed from a completely fresh angle, The Dressmaker can be an atmospheric pleasure filled with all the period’s glitz and glamour, all the raw feelings of a national tragedy and all the contradictory feelings of young love.