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388 pages New Zealand author Summary: Megan Sligo, known as GoGo, runs a mending business from her home in Auckland, New Zealand. She sees entire lives through the clues of a split seam or a ripped skirt; through the desire to fix a beloved garment rather than buy a new one. And then she meets an Irish costume with a long back-story, complicated knot-work, black stitching on black cloth and at least three different people who claim to own it. She then becomes so entranced by the stories of death and tragedy in the Belfast history of this costume's family, that she keeps one of the claimants coming back by telling him that the repair isn't finished. This is a story stitched together by candlelight. It's not set in a pre-industrial age, but rather during a five-week long blackout that brought Auckland to a stand-still in the late 1980s