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deliabarryThe Virgin Blue
by Tracy Chevalier
In the mid-sixteenth century, Isabelle du Moulin married Etienne Tournier after he got her pregnant. In the twenty-first century, her descendant Ella Turner moves to France with her husband Rich when he takes a job there. Unfortunately, Ella's experience of village life isn't at all what she expected and to fill up her time she begins to investigate her family history. This fairly mundane activity takes her on a voyage into her family's past and her own present that goes far beyond anything she had expected, and includes a tragic link across hundreds of years to Isabelle.
I really like Tracey Chevalier's work, and this book is no exception. Although I always have trouble with books (or movies, for that matter) that require excessive suspension of disbelief (in this case, supernatural connections between Isabelle and her descendants), this time it didn't really bother me here. I got particularly caught up in Ella's very modern difficulties, some of which hit very close to home. This was a good read.
by Tracy Chevalier
In the mid-sixteenth century, Isabelle du Moulin married Etienne Tournier after he got her pregnant. In the twenty-first century, her descendant Ella Turner moves to France with her husband Rich when he takes a job there. Unfortunately, Ella's experience of village life isn't at all what she expected and to fill up her time she begins to investigate her family history. This fairly mundane activity takes her on a voyage into her family's past and her own present that goes far beyond anything she had expected, and includes a tragic link across hundreds of years to Isabelle.
I really like Tracey Chevalier's work, and this book is no exception. Although I always have trouble with books (or movies, for that matter) that require excessive suspension of disbelief (in this case, supernatural connections between Isabelle and her descendants), this time it didn't really bother me here. I got particularly caught up in Ella's very modern difficulties, some of which hit very close to home. This was a good read.
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