The virgin blue / Tracy Chevalier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chevalier, Tracy.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women.

Americans.

Southwest France.

Americans--France, Southwest--Fiction.

Cévennes Mountains (France)--Fiction.

Cévennes Mountains (France).

Women--France, Southwest--Fiction.

France, Southwest--Fiction.

France, Southwest.

Childlessness--Fiction.

Childlessness.

Married women--Fiction.

Married women.

Persecution--Fiction.

Persecution.

Midwives--Fiction.

Midwives.

Genre:

Psychological fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

304 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Plume, [2003]

Summary:

Meet Ella Turner and Isabelle du Moulin -- two women born centuries apart, yet tied together by a haunting 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 working on a family of her own. Village life turns out to be less idyllic than she expected, however, and a strange series of events 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 pulls the lives of the two women together in a most mysterious way. Part detective story, part historical fiction, The Virgin Blue is a novel of passion and intrigue that compels readers to the very last page.

Contents:

1 The Virgin 1

2 The Dream 23

3 The Flight 64

4 The Search 90

5 The Secrets 129

6 The Bible 148

7 The Dress 184

8 The Farm 206

9 The Chimney 243

10 The Return 266

Historical Note 303.

ISBN:

0452284449

OCLC:

51477889