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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 knocks the rust off her high school French. But it is all in vain. Isolated and lonely, she is drawn to investigate her Tournier ancestry, which leads to her encounter with the town's wolfish librarian.Read More

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  • TheBookPeople

    From the bestselling author of 'Girl With a Pearl Earring', a reissue of her first novel, which was first published in 1996. 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 knocks the rust off her high school French. But it is all 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 colour 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!

  • Foyles

    ‘A triumph. Excellent’ Time Out‘A beautifully crafted story shot with vivid colours’ The Times‘An intriguing and poignant read’ Sunday Express‘Such an achievement for a serious writer that you feel it deserves an award’ IndependentShe 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.

  • BookDepository

    The Virgin Blue : Paperback : HarperCollins Publishers : 9780007241460 : : 18 Jan 2012 : From the author of the international bestseller Girl with a Pearl Earring, this is historical fiction at its very best and perfect for fans of Rose Tremain, Kate Morton and Sarah Waters.

  • Blackwell

    From the author of the international bestseller Girl with a Pearl Earring, this is historical fiction at its very best and perfect for fans of Rose Tremain, Kate Morton and Sarah Waters. From the author of the international bestseller Girl with a...

  • 0007241461
  • 9780007241460
  • Tracy Chevalier
  • 4 December 2006
  • Harper
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 312
  • New edition
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