'...her style reminds me of Catherine Cookson.' Glasgow Evening Times Christian Knox had of a life beyond a Paisley housewife, of a world of learning, of real ideas. Determined to get an education that equals her brothers, she starts up as a tambourer - a freelance embroiderer, to pay for her education. She marries Angus Fraser, hoping to increase her involvement in his but this only comes with his death. Left to fight for the business she loves, she introduces an innovation that will make her town a household name - the Paisley Shawl.