The Virgin Blue

Resumen del libro

"Such an achievement for a serious writer that you feel it deserves an award"
'Independent'

'The compelling story of two women, born centuries apart, and the ancestral legacy that binds them.'

Ella Turner tries hard to fit in to the small, close-knit community of the French town that she has moved to. She even changes her name back to Tournier, and knocks the rust off her high-school French. Isolated and lonely, she is drawn to investigate her Tournier ancestry, with heart-wrenching results.

Isabelle de Moulin, known as La Rousse because of her fiery red hair, is tormented and shunned in her village suspected of witchcraft and reviled for her association with the Virgin Mary. When she becomes pregnant, she has no choice but to marry into the arrogant Tournier family. Tormentor becomes husband, and a shocking fate awaits her as Ella Turner discovers four hundred years later.

Biografía del autor

Creció en Washington y ya desde edad temprana mostró interés por el mundo de los libros, escribiendo sus primeros relatos cortos en el instituto. A los 22 años se mudó a Reino Unido, donde trabajó durante un tiempo en varias editoriales. Tras graduarse en escritura creativa, consiguió el reconocimiento internacional con La joven de la perla, un bestseller traducido a 38 idiomas. Duomo lanzó con una gran acogida entre los lectores La voz de los árboles y publicará próximamente su nueva novela histórica.