The Virgin Blue - Softcover
The compelling story of two women, born four centuries apart, and the ancestral legacy that binds them. Ella Turner does her best to fit in to the small, close-knit community of Lisle-sur-Tarn. She even changes her name back to Tournier, and learns French. In vain. Isolated and lonely, she is drawn to investigate her Tournier ancestry, which leads to her encounter with the town's wolfish librarian. Isabelle du Moulin, known as Le Rousse due to her fiery red hair, is tormented and shunned in the village -- suspected of witchcraft and reviled for her association with the Virgin Mary. Falling pregnant, she is forced to marry into the ruling family: the Tourniers. Tormentor becomes husband, and a shocking fate awaits her. Plagued by the color blue, Ella is haunted by parallels with the past, and by her recurring dream. Then one morning she wakes up to discover that her hair is turning inexplicably red...
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TRACY CHEVALIER is the author of New Yorks Times bestselling Girl with a Pearl Earring. She holds a graduate degree in creative writing from the University of East Anglia. An American originally from Washington, DC, she currently lives in London with her husband and son.
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In Tracy Chevalier's first novel, we follow two very different women born centuries apart living in the same rural area of France. In an entertaining mix of historical fiction and detective story, Chevalier uses her proven talents to make us care deeply about the conjoined fates of seventeenth-century Isabelle du Moulin and twenty-first-century Ella Turner. Narrators Carter and Marceau Clarke both read terrifically well. They infuse their respective characters with vivid personalities and make the extra characters for which they are each responsible believable--from aged French male peasant to 10-year-old girl. As an added bonus, all the French accents are spot-on. An utterly involving listen. A.C.S. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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- PublisherPenguin Books
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0140265023
- ISBN 13 9780140265026
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages288
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Book Description Condition: Como nuevo. This is the story of Isabel and the persecution of the Huguenots and also the story of Ella, a young American who moves to rural France and becomes obsessed with the colour blue and by the genealogy of her family. The two strands of the novel meet as Ella discovers the truth about Isabel's fate. EAN: 9780140265026 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y ficción| Ficción contemporánea Título: The Virgin BlueAutor: Tracy Chevalier Editorial: Penguin Idioma: EN Páginas: 272 Formato: Tapa blanda. Seller Inventory # Happ-2021-Dec-14-119417
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Book Description Condition: Fair. She was called Isabelle, and when she was a small girl her hair changed colour in the time it takes a bird to call to its mate ? Midwife Isabelle du Moulin is marked as different, by both her red hair and her love for the Virgin Mary in her rich blue robes. As religious fervour sweeps 16th-century France, Isabelle?s striking likeness to the Madonna puts her in danger when her village is enraptured by new Protestant doctrine. Four centuries later, Ella Turner moves to the French village of Lisle-sur-Tarn and finds her dreams are haunted by the colour blue. Ella hopes to become both a midwife and a mother, but her plans unravel as she discovers her link to Isabelle, and her ancestor?s shocking fate. 256 pages. Seller Inventory # 1351742
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