The Florentine Quilt: Chrissie Bellbrae in-conversation with Claudine Tinellis

Three women connected in time to a medieval quilt and an ancient tale of forbidden love.

Australian textile conservator, Theodora Harris, is grieving her grandmother's death when offered an internship to restore a medieval quilt depicting a legend steeped in Celtic folklore. While the hero Tristan is lauded in the design, his true love Isolde's story is missing. Theodora's past is incomplete too.

Theodora’s powerful connection to the quilt brings family secrets to the surface, and as each scene is restored, her attraction to the enigmatic Tristan becomes harder to deny. The threads of long lost love refuse to let her go. But the sacrifice for independence and taking control of her life is walking away from love. Theodora must trust that it doesn't mean forever.

1896: Gifted healer Amelia Treloar sails from the wild Cornish coast to join her husband in the Australian mining town of Walhalla. She should…