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'Zac, a translator of Flaubert, can't believe his luck. He ends up sleeping with Odette, a beautiful but carpicious ceramic artist, and her best friend, Cicely, a talented knitter and author of an erotic novel. As well as an interest in Madam Bovary the three share a brief menage a trois. That is, until things unravel in unexpected ways, Cicely adopts the logical detection methods of a Miss Marple, and we come to know the delightful Miss Ball and her haberdashery.' (Publisher's blurb)

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Epigraph:
Between the window and the hearth,
sat Emma at her needlework...'
-Gustave Flaubert
'Logic will get you from point A to point B.
Imagination will take you everywhere.'
- Albert Einstein
'To ask for whom Miss Marple knits is to miss the point...'
-Hercule Poirot

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Crochet Pattern of a Plot Has a Hungry Reader Hooked Juliette Hughes , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11-12 May 2013; (p. 28-29) The Age , 11 May 2013; (p. 27)
— Review of Madame Bovary's Haberdashery Maurilia Meehan , 2013 single work novel

Maurilia Meehan: Madame Bovary’s Haberdashery Carol Middleton , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 350 2013;
— Review of Madame Bovary's Haberdashery Maurilia Meehan , 2013 single work novel

Loose-Knit Tale of Sex and a Sleuth Liam Davison , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 18-19 May 2013; (p. 20-21)
— Review of Madame Bovary's Haberdashery Maurilia Meehan , 2013 single work novel