Changes to The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier

Shelfari edited the description of The Virgin Blue Friday, July 31 2009.

Meet Ella Turner and Isabelle du Moulin - two women born centuries apart, yet bound by a fateful 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 a family of her own. Village life turns out to be less idyllic than she expected, however, and a peculiar dream of the color blue 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 unexpectedly links the two women. Part detective story, part historical fiction, The Virgin Blue is a novel of passion and intrigue that compels readers to the very last page.

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Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Virgin Blue Thursday, July 16 2009.

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.

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