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The Lady and the Unicorn
- Narrated by: Kati Nicholl, Isla Blair
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
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Tapestries give an appearance of order and continuity, as if designed and made by one person, belying the complicated process required to create them. Weavers, patrons, designers, artists, merchants, and apprentices were involved in their making, and behind them were the wives, daughters, and servants who exercised influences over their men. Like the many strands of wool and silk woven together into one cloth, so these people came together in a complex dance to create the whole picture.
Jean le Viste, a newly wealthy member of the French court, commissions the tapestries to hang in his chateau. Nicolas, his chosen designer, meets le Viste's wife Genevieve and his daughter Claude, both of whom take a keen interest in the tapestries. From Paris, Nicolas moves to a weaver's workshop in Brussels.
The creation of the tapestries brings together people who would not otherwise meet, their lives become entangled, and so do their desires. As they fall in love, are shunned, take revenge, find unrequited love, turn to the church or to pagan ideals, the tapestries become to each an ideal vision of life, yet all discover that they are unable to make this ideal world their own.
Critic reviews
- Romantic Times Award Winner - Best Historical Fiction, 2004
"Tracy Chevalier gives the kiss of life to the historical novel." (Independent)
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