"The compelling story of two women, born centuries spart, and the ancestral legacy that binds them.Ella Turner tries Nard to fit in to the small, close-knit community of the French toron that she has moved to. She even changes her narre 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 du 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 droite 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.
Dimensions:128 x 196
Author: Tracy Chevalier
ISBN: 9780007108275
Format: Hardcover
Pages 304