Blurb:
From award-winning author Eva Stachniak comes this passionate novel that illuminates, as only fiction can, the early life of one of history’s boldest women. The Winter Palace tells the epic story of Catherine the Great’s improbable rise to power—as seen through the ever-watchful eyes of an all-but-invisible servant close to the throne.
In a nutshell:
I read it in: English
I liked it: Sort of. It was not what I expected.
For people who like: court intrigue, historical stories from the point of view of a non-historical character
My thoughts:
This book is supposed to be “A story of Catherine the Great”. Let me tell you that it is not. If anything it should be called “A story WITH Catherine the Great”. It does NOT tell Catherine’s epic story but rather the story of a young girl who ends up working as a spy for the Russian chancellor and later for Catherine.
While it was interesting to learn more about the life of the common people, about the behind the scenes of the palace, about the servants’ viewpoint of events, it is not what I came here for. I read this book to learn more about Catherine and I wanted to compare it to Robert Massie’s biography of Catherine and, frankly, I could not have cared less about someone else’s wedding night. Unfortunately Catherine’s life plays the second fiddle.
I assume that Massie’s book gives us the facts so in “Winter Palace” Eva Stachniak seems to have taken some poetic license in order to weave Varvara into the story.
As everything is told from her point of view most events in Catherine’s life just happen but we don’t get to know that much about them. So the book did not meet my expectations at all. As a historical fictional story of a girl at the Russian court in the 18th century this was a good read, it was simply not at all what I expected or hoped for.
Location: Mostly St. Petersburg, Russia
All images from wikipedia
Product info and buy link :
| Title | The Winter Palace |
| Author | Eva Stachniak |
| Publisher | Bantam |
| ISBN | 978-0553808124 |
| I got this book from | Netgalley |
| Buy link | Buy The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great |
| More info | Eva Stachniak’s website |
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Blurb:
In July of 1923, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple travels to Henley-on-Thames to visit her aunt and uncle as well as to work on her latest writing assignment – to cover the Henley Royal Regatta for an American magazine. Daisy plans a simple trip researching her article, enjoying the races, and, come the weekend, having a pleasant time with her fiance, Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard. But the tensions between the Ambrose team’s coxswain, Horace Bott – a shopkeeper’s son and scholarship student at Oxford – and rower, Basil DeLancey – the younger son of an Earl and all-around bounder – are constantly threatening to erupt into violence. The team then proceeds to lose their next heat in the eight because Bott is ill from the previous night’s overindulgence, an action he was goaded into by DeLancey. DeLancey publicly humiliates Bott. Bott, in turn, publicly swears revenge. The following day, in the coxless four, DeLancey himself keels over and dies mid-race. Foul play is immediately suspected, with Bott the logical suspect. But nothing is obvious in this tangled web of jealousies and secrets, and while Inspector Fletcher investigates the murder, Daisy once again must ferret out the truth.
In a nutshell:
I read it in: German (Miss Daisy und der Tote auf dem Wasser)
I liked it: Yes, but slowly I am getting sick of Daisy
For people who like: Cosy mysteries, sports events, the 20s, the English upper class, rowing
My thoughts:
This is the third Daisy Dalrymple mystery that I have read and I know that soon I will need to take a break from her.
"Death on the water" has an interesting setting. A widely known regatta takes place and we learn about the rivalries between teams as well as the problems misfits (i.e. members of the lower classes) have to deal with when attending a college – especially, it seems, when they are smarter than the average nobleman’s son.
However, I would have preferred to learn about those problems in a less "ram them down your throat" way. Before we encounter even one situation where the low class boy is being harassed by his supposed superiors he already pours his little heart out to the ubiquitous Daisy, even though he has only seen her for the first time at the very moment. Again she wonders briefly why everybody wants to take her into their confidence, but then again, she is so curious, not to say nosy, that she takes to being the confidante like a fish takes to water. She really got on my nerves with her "I’ll stay to make sure s/he is alright" demeanour when, in reality, she just wants to stay in order to know everything that is being said and done. How her fiancée Alec puts up with that shit, I don’t know.
The sleuthing seemed to be somewhat slow and little goal oriented. If there hadn’t been a witness of sorts and a murderer ready to confess (either through words or actions) Alec would have been in the dark forever. On top of that the case is not quite as clear as it seemed, which only comes out almost as an afterthought. And once more – I feel like I am turning into a fighter for the plebs reading those books – I got the uncomfortable feeling that exceptions are being made for people simply because they belong to a class that seems to be untouchable.
I have one more Daisy Dalrymple book from the library, "Styx and Stones", which I will read and then I will call it a day for now. There is only so much lenience towards the upper class I can take.
Location: Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Product info and buy link :
| Title | Dead in the water |
| Author | Carola Dunn |
| Publisher | Kensington |
| ISBN | 978-0758227294 |
| I got this book from | the library |
| Buy link | Buy Dead in the Water  |
| More info | The Daisy Dalrymple mysteries in chronological order |
| and more | Two free Daisy Dalrymple short stories |
| and even more | Henley Royal Regatta |
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Blurb:
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen and rose to become one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in history.
In a nutshell:
I read it in: the original English
I liked it: Yes
For people who like: royalty, biographies, European history
My thoughts:
“Catherine the Great” starts before the birth of Sophia (later Catherine) and tells us a lot about the background of her mother and father, which is important to understand later events. The first part of the story until Catherine’s accession to the throne is told chronologically, whereas from then on it is told in a mix of chronological and topical. At first I thought I might not like this topical approach, but it turned out to be the much better way.
A lot of topics, like for example the Turkish war, Pugachev’s rebellion or her relationship with Potemkin could be understood much better when told in one big chunk instead of split up in between other events. Often certain situations were mentioned later again in passing when it came to that moment in the chronological timeline. This helped to see why something happened without having to digress into long explanations.
External events like the French Revolution were given quite a bit of room to make the reader understand Catherine’s actions that sometimes contradicted her own previous beliefs. The story was structured very well and left nothing to be desired. It brought all the characters, not only Catherine herself, to life. It was not only extremely informative but also very entertaining.
For readers who want to know more facts about Catherine the Great, her time and her contemporaries this is the book to go to.
Location: Mostly St. Petersburg, Russia
Images from Google maps & wikipedia
Product info and buy link :
| Title | Catherine the Great |
| Author | Robert K. Massie |
| Publisher | Random House |
| ISBN | 978-0679456728 |
| I got this book from | Random House Early Bird Read |
| Buy link | Buy Catherine the Great |
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Lately it seems I pick up quite a lot of books that turn out to be a DNF. I tried so hard to read (and like) “The mysteries of Udolpho” which is a book I have been wanting to read for a long time, actually ever since reading “Northanger Abbey”. The Gothic Reading Challenge was the perfect opportunity to finally tackle it.
According to Goodreads I started reading that book on June 26. You want to know how far I got? To page 48!
I was willing, I compared covers, I told you the book beginning, Udolpho turned up on my monthly reading lists – to no avail. That book is so long winded, it defies description. Admittedly, at 880 pages I didn’t expect it to go medias in res, but the descriptions of scenery bored the hell out of me, and I didn’t want to read through 200 pages of them before the gothic “horror” would start. If it ever started I don’t know.
I think it’s time to say good bye to it and just face the fact that the mysteries of Udolpho will remain a mystery to me.
Blurb:
It’s the early 1920s in England – the country is still recovering from the Great War and undergoing rapid social changes that many are not quite ready to accept. During this heady and tumultuous time, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple, the daughter of a Viscount, makes a decision shocking to her class: rather than be supported by her relations, she will earn her own living as a writer.
Landing an assignment for Town & Country magazine for a series of articles on country manor houses she travels to Wentwater Court in early January 1923 to begin research on her first piece. But all is not well there when she arrives.
Lord Wentwater’s young wife has become the center of a storm of jealousy, animosity, and, possibly, some not-unwanted amorous attention, which has disrupted the peace of the bucolic country household. Still, this is as nothing compared to the trouble that ensues when one of the holiday guests drowns in a tragic early-morning skating accident. Especially when Daisy discovers that his death was no accident …
In a nutshell:
I read it in: German (“Miss Daisy und der Tote auf dem Eis”)
I liked it: x Yes, with some reservations about the ending
For people who like: cosy mysteries, mystery with no violence (except, of course, for the murder), easy reading, the atmosphere of the 20s
My thoughts:
“Death at Wentwater Court” is the first book in the Daisy Dalrymple series. I read it after reading the fourth instalment “Murder on the Flying Scotsman” which I liked quite a bit.
In this first book Daisy meets Alec Fletcher, the smart detective for the first time and the foundation stone for their future relationship is being laid. We also find out why Alec is always investigating the crimes taking place in “High Society”, I had already wondered about that. Daisy is a very nice, down-to-earth girl. However, her overall likeable-ness started to get on my nerves when everybody, really everybody, wanted her to stay/go with them when they had to confess to the police or talk about a difficult topic. Those people only knew her slightly, if at all, and still she became their confidante almost immediately. Even Alec himself, who is a police officer, talked about the current case as if she was a co-worker instead of a , let’s face it, nosy female who just happened to be at the right place at the right time. His readiness to tell her confidential information was odd, to say the least.
Spoiler below!
The discovery of the culprit was based on another confession made in Daisy’s presence which was a bit of a disappointment.
What followed after was downright shocking. I know this is supposed to be a harmless cosy mystery, but somehow the end rubbed me the totally wrong way. Daisy played judge, jury and executioner (or rather the opposite) in one go and decided to let the culprit go free by coming up with a cunning plan to get him out of the grasp of the police. As justified as this may seem, it was highly irregular. The motivation behind this was basically to protect the noble family involved from being dragged through the press and prevent further pain. All very nice, indeed, however, if the same incident had happened in a working class environment, I am sure, the outcome would have been different. The subsequent outburst of Alec was understandable. How quickly he was placated and the laissez faire attitude of his superior – a friend of the family involved–, made me feel slightly uneasy.
It might very well be that the situation during those times was exactly like that – hang the rabble, spare the upper classes – but really, in a mystery novel one expects to see justice done. If a jury had found the accused not guilty, which would have been not unlikely, then all would have been good. As it was it leaves an uncomfortable feeling with me.
Location: Hampshire, England, UK
All images from wikipedia
Product info and buy link :
| Title | Death at Wentwater Court |
| Author | Carola Dunn |
| Publisher | Robinson |
| ISBN | 978-1845298654 |
| I got this book from | the library |
| Buy link | Buy Death at Wentwater Court |
| More info | The Daisy Dalrymple mysteries in chronological order |
| and more | Two free Daisy Dalrymple short stories |
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Blurb:
Former Emperor’s consort Ling Suyin is renowned for her beauty; the ultimate seductress. Now she lives quietly alone—until the most ruthless warlord in the region comes and steals her away….
Li Tao lives life by the sword, and is trapped in the treacherous, lethal world of politics. The alluring Ling Suyin is at the center of the web. He must uncover her mystery without falling under her spell—yet her innocence calls out to him. How cruel if she, of all women, can entrance the man behind the legend…
In a nutshell:
I read it in: English
I liked it: Yes x No The book was a DNF for me.
For people who like: typical romance, ancient China
My thoughts:
It seems I am having to deal with more DNFs than usual at the moment. Not sure why this is, the books that I did not finish were not at all comparable. Anyway, this one was yet another DNF for me.
I got “The Dragon and the Pearl” because I found the cover adorable. Not a very good reason to get a book (some people might disagree, I know), and it did turn out to be the wrong one here.
The story starts medias in res with Li Tao coming for Suyin and takes her with him to his own mansion deep in the forest. The perfect setting for a blossoming romance, isn’t it. And here we go! From the first moment Suyin was drawn to Li Tao and her heart started beating faster whenever he came near. It is very much possible that Li Tao felt the same way, as he always got this gleam in his eyes when he set them on her. Needless to say he was muscled, hard as a rock, pure masculine power. I was only waiting for the term “predator” to crop up and I was not disappointed. It was in chapter three and appeared in the form of a “predatory glint” in his eyes. Two lines before that he “prowled” closer, which had me wondering once more why a man who “prowls” seems so desirable to some women (and romance authors).
Very soon after I decided to stop reading. I am sure had I gotten to the love scenes I would have encountered “molten lava” in abundance – or something similar, I am not sure whether Christine Feehan has the monopoly on molten lava or not.
Romance lovers will devour this book I am sure, especially since the setting is interesting and unusual. Maybe I was just disappointed because I expected the story to be different (why, I can’t say) and instead I only got the ordinary romance formula.
Location: Ancient China, capital Chang’an (now: Xi’an)
Images from wikipedia
Product info and buy link :
| Title | The Dragon and the Pearl |
| Author | Jeannie Lin |
| Publisher | Harlequin |
| ISBN | 9780373296620 |
| I got this book from | Netgalley, because I found the cover very appealing |
| Buy link | Buy The Dragon and the Pearl |
| More info | Jeannie Lin’s website |
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Blurb:
It is the spring of 1923 and the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple is on her way to a stately home in Scotland to research her next article for Town and Country. On board the Flying Scotsman, the famous London-to-Edinburgh train, Daisy meets an old schoolfellow, Anne Breton. Anne, along with all of her relatives, is en route to visit the deathbed of the family scion and notorious miser, Alistair McGowan. As it currently stands, Alistair’s will leaves the entire family fortune to his brother Albert, and the rest of the family is rushing to his side, each hoping to convince him to change his will in their favor. Daisy, meanwhile, has her hands full taking care of Detective Inspector Alec Fletcher’s young daughter Belinda, who ran away from home and stowed away aboard the train. She barely has time to take notice of the intricate family feud taking place all around her – that is, until Albert McGowan is found murdered on the train and Daisy is surrounded by an entire family of suspects.
In a nutshell:
I liked it: x Yes No
For people who like: cosy mysteries, mystery with no violence (except, of course, for the murder), easy reading, the atmosphere of the 20s
My thoughts: 
If you are a reader who can’t remember who is who in a story with five characters, then don’t touch this book! We are dealing with a four generation family tree here and except for a few deceased ones, everyone in that family of over twenty people is involved in the case. I had to go back to the family tree frequently in order to know what a person’s relationship with another was. I just couldn’t remember all those family and first names and put them to the right “face”.
The fact that this book is the fourth in a series of so far twenty didn’t matter. The two main characters and their blossoming relationship were easy to figure out.
I like mysteries where the murder occurs in a closed environment, like, for example “Murder on the Orient Express” and “Murder on the Flying Scotsman” resembles the former very much. The murder occurs on the train, there are tons of suspects, the “detective” – Daisy Dalrymple, the amateur sleuth and journalist – on board, then everyone is taken to a hotel in Berwick where they can be interrogated by the Chief Inspector, it is all very nice and cosy indeed.
Not much suspense, no frayed nerves over who did it, I wasn’t sitting at the edge of my seat and my heart wasn’t beating faster, but I was rather lounging on the couch with a hot chocolate (next time it will be a Hot Toddy) and enjoying the gentle ride.
Product info and buy link :
| Title | Murder on the Flying Scotsman |
| Author | Carola Dunn |
| Publisher | Kensington |
| ISBN | 978-1575667539 |
| I got this book | at a library sale |
| Buy link | Buy Murder on the Flying Scotsman |
| More info | More info on the Flying Scotsman |
| and more | The Daisy Dalrymple mysteries in chronological order |
| and some free stuff | Two free Daisy Dalrymple short stories |
Have you read this book? What did you think of it? I would love to hear other opinions.
Blurb:
Why must it be me? I wondered. When I am so clearly inadequate to my destiny?
Raised alongside her numerous brothers and sisters by the formidable empress of Austria, ten-year-old Maria Antonia knew that her idyllic existence would one day be sacrificed to her mother’s political ambitions. What she never anticipated was that the day in question would come so soon.
Before she can journey from sunlit picnics with her sisters in Vienna to the glitter, glamour, and gossip of Versailles, Antonia must change everything about herself in order to be accepted as dauphine of France and the wife of the awkward teenage boy who will one day be Louis XVI. Yet nothing can prepare her for the ingenuity and influence it will take to become queen.
In a nutshell:
I liked it: x Yes No
For people who like: young archduchesses that need to be moulded into shape, royalty, 1st person’s POV
My thoughts:
This is the first book in a trilogy and covers only a few years in Maria Antonia’s life. It is very detailed and talks about lots of little things in the everyday life of the family of Habsburg at the time. Since I am neither an expert on the Habsburger in general nor on Marie Antoinette specifically, I have no idea how accurate the story is, but it certainly is very entertaining.
It is told from Maria Antonia’s point of view and gives a lot of insight into what was going on in the girl’s head when she heard that she is to marry the dauphin of France, a boy she has never seen (and will not see until after their wedding has already taken place) and during the following years.
I was shocked to learn that the French would not allow her to bring even one trusted maid, they allowed almost no personal belongings and not even her pet into France. She was only 14 when she married Louis Auguste. She was alone in a foreign country, all of a sudden the dauphine at a court of bootlickers and schemers, with nobody to talk to in her native German, nobody she knew, only speaking mediocre French! Wow!
The title of the book is more than fitting. Maria Antonia really had to *become” Marie Antoinette before she was considered suitable to marry her later husband. Not pretty enough, not smart enough, not educated enough, the teeth not straight enough….what else? She had to undergo considerable tutoring (mentally and physically) in order to please. And all according to the will of her mother Maria Theresia who, herself, refused to marry any other man than the one she loved! Double standards, anyone?
Throughout the story we read private letters between Maria Theresia and her ambassador in Versailles. This lets us peek into the mind of the woman behind the “marriage contract” and gives us an idea on how treacherous a path Marie Antoinette is walking. Not everything at the court of Versailles is what it seems to be – in fact, it is rather the opposite.
Now, for some necessary nitpicking (if you don’t speak German and have never heard of the Habsburger before you probably won’t care about those two little details):
- Antonia’s family is the family of Habsburg. In the book they are referred to as the family of Hapsburg. I have never seen the name spelled like that before so I looked around and found an entry on wikipedia that the name sometimes is spelled that way. Don’t ask me why! “P” instead of “b” makes no difference in terms of ease of pronunciation. Then I asked Birgit from The Book Garden, who is an Austrian, whether she has EVER seen the Habsburger as the Hapsburger. She hasn’t either. I wonder why Juliet Grey has chosen the uncommon version of the name. Seeing the name Hapsburg rubs every German speaking person the wrong way. If there are different versions of a name, shouldn’t one use the most common (and, in this case, original) one? Every time I saw the name Hapsburg in the story I flinched.
- There are German words interspersed in conversations of people. That is ok, even though more often than not authors who are no native speakers sometimes make mistakes that spoil the reading fun.
At one point Antonia is supposed to say “The butterfly is dead” in French. However, she is not very good at French, therefore mixes French and German up and ends up saying “Le papillon mort ist”. Sorry, but that makes no sense at all. In German, just as in French and English, the sentence structure would be subject – predicate – object, that means the correct (mixed up German-French) sentence would be “Le papillon ist mort”. No German speaker would ever put “ist” at the end of that specific sentence.
I assume that somehow the generalisation that in German the verb always comes at the end has been taken too literally here. There were a couple of more errors that just didn’t fit with the rest of the well researched story. I wish the author would have let a native speaker check the German because it was the only little flaw in the book. But little flaws like that annoy me.
That being said, I loved the way the story flowed, there was not one moment of boredom or scenes I thought I could have done without. It was very enjoyable. The book ends at a point that makes perfect sense, still I was totally surprised that it came so quickly. I was reading and then all of a sudden I turned the page and – the end! For a moment I was shocked. Especially since a very important aspect in the private life of Marie Antoinette and her husband was still hanging in mid-air, and I was eager to find out how it would be resolved.
At the end of the book you will find an extensive list of books Juliet Grey used for her research, as well as some notes on writing “Becoming Marie Antoinette" and a glimpse into the beginning of the next book in the trilogy. “Days of Splendor, Days of Sorrow” will be released in summer 2012. I can’t wait!
Product info and buy link :
| Title | Becoming Marie Antoinette |
| Author | Juliet Grey |
| Publisher | Ballantine Books |
| ISBN | 978-0345523860 |
| I got this book from | Netgalley because I loved the cover and I know next to nothing about Marie Antoinette except for “Let them eat cake” and even that might not even have been her. |
| Buy link | Buy Becoming Marie Antoinette |
| More info | Interview with Juliet Grey about the book |
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Want to know what others thought of this book? Have a look at:
TLC Blog tour of “Becoming Marie Antoinette”
Today’s book beginning is from “Becoming Marie Antoinette” by Juliet Grey. It is the first book in a trilogy about Marie Antoinette. “Becoming Marie Antoinette” is telling us how young Maria Antonia grew up in Vienna and what transformation she had to undergo in order to become the wife of the dauphin of France.
If you would like to know more, there is a video with an interview with Juliet Grey (pseudonym for Leslie Carroll) on the website of WCAX.
This is the beginning of “Becoming Marie Antoinette”…
Schönbrunn, May 1766
My mother liked to boast that numerous daughters were “sacrifices in politics”. I never dared to admit to Maman, who was Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, that the phrase terrified me more than she could know.
What is YOUR book beginning today?
Blurb:
Girl With a Pearl Earring tells the story of Griet, a 16-year-old Dutch girl who becomes a maid in the house of the painter Johannes Vermeer. Her calm and perceptive manner not only helps her in her household duties, but also attracts the painter’s attention. Though different in upbringing, education and social standing, they have a similar way of looking at things. Vermeer slowly draws her into the world of his paintings – the still, luminous images of solitary women in domestic settings.
In contrast to her work in her master’s studio, Griet must carve a place for herself in a chaotic Catholic household run by Vermeer’s volatile wife Catharina, his shrewd mother-in-law Maria Thins, and their fiercely loyal maid Tanneke. Six children (and counting) fill out the household, dominated by six-year-old Cornelia, a mischievous girl who sees more than she should.
On the verge of womanhood, Griet also contends with the growing attentions both from a local butcher and from Vermeer’s patron, the wealthy van Ruijven. And she has to find her way through this new and strange life outside the loving Protestant family she grew up in, now fragmented by accident and death.
As Griet becomes part of her master’s work, their growing intimacy spreads disruption and jealousy within the ordered household and even – as the scandal seeps out – ripples in the world beyond.
My thoughts:
This was a very quick read for me. Once I started I just didn’t want to put the book down again. The pace is slow, no exciting things happen (at least nothing that we would call exciting nowadays). It describes the life of Griet working in Vermeer’s household, her daily tasks and the internal quarrels. The story is given life by the various characters living in that household.
I liked how everybody was described, even though some of the characters were very unlikeable (from what I have read, Chevalier has taken quite some poetic license as Catharina obviously was not nearly as bad as she was in the book).
A few things I found hard to believe.
Cornelia, one of the children, was such a sly creature, always on the lookout to hurt Griet and get her into trouble. Can a little six year old girl be that cunning and mean?
The ability of Griet to help Vermeer in improving his paintings felt strange to me. She might have had an innate and unconscious understanding of composition and colors, but that she immediately knew what was missing in her painting whereas Vermeer took two days and a visual cue to realize this felt unrealistic to me.
The relationship between Vermeer and Catharina was extremely ambivalent. Obviously he had a say in things because when he put his foot down it worked, but at the same time he seemed to be afraid of his wife. Maybe it was just that he was so wrapped up in his own world that he just didn’t care about anything else, but then I would have expected him to be frank about his art and give a damn about the consequences. However, he kept a lot of things secret in order to not kick up a stink with his wife. Then again, when it came to Griet wearing the earrings, he never even considered the consequences for her. All this threw a bad light on him in my eyes. Being wrapped up in your own little artistic world is fair and good as long as you don’t have a household with a dozen kids and a few bickering women to take care of. As much as I understood his behaviour I could never bring myself to really like him.
All that aside I thoroughly enjoyed reading this. If you like slow paced books with interesting characters this is definitely worth a try.
To read the first chapter and see the paintings mentioned in the story, go to Tracy Chevalier’s website.
| Title | Girl with a pearl earring |
| Author | Tracy Chevalier |
| Publisher | Plume |
| ISBN | 978-0452287020 |
| Buy link | Buy Girl with a Pearl Earring |
