Upper School Book Club Meets Friday, Feb. 8
Join the Upper School Book Club at Jittery Joe's in Watkinsville on Friday, Feb. 8 at 7:00 p.m. for a discussion of The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier.
The Virgin Blue is Chevalier's first novel, written before the popular and critically-acclaimed Girl with a Pearl Earring, but not published in the U.S. until 2003. In it you will 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.