OT "Hairloom"

[Alix Petty]

No: HPFGUIDX 6067

Catlady said:

> Alix wrote:
> > Help - I've been desperately trying to remember the author of some
> books I
> > read when I was at school.   She wrote several collections of short
> stories - she
> > wrote quite a few about one family in particular, one of which focused
> on a
> > Hairloom,
>
> Hairloom: it was an embroidery of a picture of that beautiful garden
> with a gazebo, and all the embroidery threads were hairs from the heads
> of family members (the original 'locks' that were sentimentally put in
> 'lockets')? I think that was a whole novel that was in the Young Adult
> section of my childhood public library. I can't remember the author or
> title either, but I was convinced that one of her books was titled THE
> SECRET GARDEN until the movie came out and was a TOTALLY DIFFERENT
> story.

Actually this sounds like different book to the one I'm searching for, but
if it's the one I'm thinking of, I do know the author this time!  It sounds
like one of the Green Knowe series, by L M Boston - I can't remember which
one, but there's a fire at the house, and the mistress' jewels go missing,
and she is told that the only way she will ever recover them is by making a
picture of the house out of the hair of every single person who was in the
house on the night of the fire.  They're brilliant books and come highly
recommended from this quarter.

The 'hairloom' I was thinking of is exactly that - a loom that weaves hair,
and I'm blowed if I can remember anything else about these books!  Thanks
for the suggestion though, Catlady!

Alix