The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: Tracy Chevalier
• Title: The Virgin Blue
• Publisher: ‎ Plume Books; First American Printing (July 2003)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Trade Paperback – 304 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0452284449
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0452284449
• Item Weight: ‎ .65 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 5.1 x 0.85 x 7.7 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good
• Cover Condition: Very Good
• Edition: First American Printing

Synopsis:

Meet Ella Turner and Isabelle du Moulin—two women born centuries apart, yet bound by a fateful family legacy. When Ella and her husband move to a small town in France, Ella hopes to brush up on her French, qualify to practice as a midwife, and start a family of her own.

Village life turns out to be less idyllic than she expected, however, and a peculiar dream of the color blue propels her on a quest to uncover her family’s French ancestry. As the novel unfolds—alternating between Ella’s story and that of Isabelle du Moulin four hundred years earlier—a common thread emerges that unexpectedly links the two women.

Part detective story, part historical fiction, The Virgin Blue is a novel of passion and intrigue that compels readers to the very last page.

About the Author:

Tracy Chevalier is the author of 10 novels, including the international bestseller GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING, which has sold over 5 million copies and been made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth.

American by birth, British by geography, she lives in London with her husband and son.

Her latest novel, A SINGLE THREAD, tells the story of an English woman between the Wars who forges an independent life in Winchester.

Tracy is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and has honorary doctorates from her alma maters Oberlin College and the University of East Anglia.

Her website www.tchevalier.com will tell you more about her and her books.