Deze auteur wordt geprezen om haar inzichtelijke psychologische portretten en haar vermogen om zich te verdiepen in het innerlijke leven van haar personages. Haar stijl wordt gekenmerkt door een lyrische kwaliteit en poëtische taal die lezers aantrekt tot complexe emoties en gedachten. Ze verkent thema's als identiteit, herinnering en de zoektocht naar betekenis in het dagelijks leven. Door haar werken herinnert ze ons aan de diepte van de menselijke ervaring en de schoonheid van zelfontdekking.
Fictieve roman gebaseerd op Johannes Vermeers schilderij "Meisje met de Parel": Nadat haar vader blind is geworden, wordt de 15-jarige Griet in 1664 dienstmeisje in het grote gezin van de Delftse schilder Johannes Vermeer, waardoor haar leven ingrijpend verandert.
Burning Bright follows the Kellaway family as they leave behind tragedy in rural Dorset and come to late 18th-century London. As they move in next door to the radical painter/poet William Blake, and take up work for a near-by circus impresario, the youngest family member gets to know a girl his age. Embodying opposite characteristics — Maggie Butterfield is a dark-haired, streetwise extrovert, Jem Kellaway a quiet blond introvert — the children form a strong bond while getting to know their unusual neighbor and his wife. Set against the backdrop of a city nervous of the revolution gone sour across the Channel in France, Burning Bright explores the states of innocence and experience just as Blake takes on similar themes in his best-known poems, Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
De zestienjarige Griet treedt als dienstmeisje in dienst bij de vermaarde schilder Johannes Vermeer. Het beeldschone, protestantse meisje weet al snel een plek te veroveren binnen de katholieke familie. De kunstenaar raakt in de loop der jaren steeds meer gecharmeerd van haar schoonheid, en besluit haar te schilderen. De groeiende intimiteit tussen hen veroorzaakt spanning en onrust in het geordende huishouden, tot ergernis van Vermeers eigenzinnige vrouw Catharina. Met een geweldig vermogen zich in te leven in het zeventiende-eeuwse Delft, vertelt Tracy Chevalier in Meisje met de parel het fictieve verhaal van een jonge vrouw die op de rand van haar volwassenheid een genie ontmoet.
This new edition features an introduction by Jessie Burton and highlights a story that has captivated over five million readers globally. The book's widespread appeal lies in its compelling narrative and rich character development, making it a significant addition to contemporary literature.
In 1810, a sister and brother uncover the fossilized skull of an unknown animal in the cliffs on the south coast of England. With its long snout and prominent teeth, it might be a crocodile – except that it has a huge, bulbous eye.Remarkable Creatures is the story of Mary Anning, who has a talent for finding fossils, and whose discovery of ancient marine reptiles such as that ichthyosaur shakes the scientific community and leads to new ways of thinking about the creation of the world.Working in an arena dominated by middle-class men, however, Mary finds herself out of step with her working-class background. In danger of being an outcast in her community, she takes solace in an unlikely friendship with Elizabeth Philpot, a prickly London spinster with her own passion for fossils.The strong bond between Mary and Elizabeth sees them through struggles with poverty, rivalry and ostracism, as well as the physical dangers of their chosen obsession. It reminds us that friendship can outlast storms and landslides, anger and jealousy.
When Quaker Honor Bright sails from Bristol with her sister, she is fleeing heartache for a new life in America, far from home. But tragedy leaves her alone and vulnerable, torn between two worlds and dependent on the kindness of strangers, and life in 1850s Ohio is precarious and unsentimental.
The stunning new novel from the bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring.
1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her mother's place and into the town of Winchester, home to one of England's grandest cathedrals. There, Violet is drawn into a society of broderers--women who embroider kneelers for the Cathedral, carrying on a centuries-long tradition of bringing comfort to worshippers. Violet finds support and community in the group, fulfilment in the work they create, and even a growing friendship with the vivacious Gilda. But when forces threaten her new independence and another war appears on the horizon, Violet must fight to put down roots in a place where women aren't expected to grow.
The sweeping and compelling new novel from the bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring. Dark, brutal, moving, powerful' Jane Harris A wonderful book; rich, evocative, original. I loved it' Joanne Harris
The compelling story of two women, born centuries apart, and the ancestral legacy that binds them.
