Interesting dual strand narrative, with the modern day protagonist a granddaughter of one of the three young women who are the focus of the wartime narrative. There are some plot devices that are a little too convenient for the sake of the narrative - the modern day heroine in an attempt to find herself not only works but lives in the same Parisian building where her own grandmother also lived and worked? What are the odds? The really compelling chapters take place in the past; three young seamstresses not only work in a Parisian couture house, but also work for the French resistance. There are some harrowing passages with two of the girls as they're arrested by the Gestapo and eventually sent off to concentration camps as political prisoners. Once I got to the halfway point, I really wanted to know how both stories would resolve themselves. It's a good story, not a great story, but I felt as if the WWII chapters were well enough researched that you got a sense of what it was like to live and resist in occupied France. I did enjoy elements of the modern day story due to the continuing fashion theme. The world is a little crazy right now, and I want some escapism. While the terror of the past and present is part of the narrative, remembering that people throughout history have been willing to do what is right at the risk of their lives.