Full name: The Virgin Blue: A Novel

Author: Tracy Chevalier Year: 1997 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Romance, Art, Mystery Culture: France Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780452284449 0452284449

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. Similar books: The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier The Moneyman by Thomas B. Costain Holy Fools by Joanne Harris The Palace of Tears by Alev Lytle Croutier The Golden Age by Gore Vidal The Girl at the Lion d'Or by Sebastian Faulks Wife to Mr. Milton by Robert Graves The Glass Blowers by Daphne Du Maurier Henry and Clara by Thomas Mallon Sepulchre by Kate Mosse Heyday by Kurt Andersen City of Darkness City of Light by Marge Piercy The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre by Dominic Smith The Real Minerva by Mary Sharratt The Rose Grower by Michelle de Kretser The Lightning Keeper by Starling Lawrence Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier I, Mona Lisa by Jeanne Kalogridis Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier