The Virgin Blue

De: Tracy Chevalier

Narrado por: Janine Carter, Gigi Marceau Clarke

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 end.©2002 Tracy Chevalier (P)2003 HighBridge Company

Reseñas de la Crítica

"...a triumph. Excellent." (Time Out)
"...it deserves an award." (The Independent)
"...beautifully crafted...shot with vivid colors." (The Times)

excellent listening, mediocre story

The setting is France, and the listening was greatly enhanced by the beautiful French accents of the readers of this novel. However, this is a slow-moving story. I love historical fiction, and the older story was much more interesting than the contemporary one. I found myself slogging through those sections and not liking the character nor the reader's petulant-sounding voice. I was impatient for the end, despite interesting plot twists along the way. Chevalier's other novels are far better than this one.

Loved it!

I loved listening to this book. It would have been difficult to read it (for me) because of the french, but listening to it was like music. This is my favorite Chevalier book so far. I enjoy her descriptive story-telling, makes you feel like you're right there with the characters.

Not Great But OK

This is not a bad book, but it is not a great choice either. The Girl with a Pearl Earing is a much better read.

Good r read bad ending

I enjoyed the book all the way up to the. Yep. That was what it was like

little predictable

Overall, the performance was great, and the story was interesting. The ending was a little predictable

Time-spanning mystery

I like all of Chevalier's novels, and this one was no exception. Her style of telling the story from different points of view keeps things moving without being too confusing.

Good story, bad protagonist.

The story is interesting and well told. The narration is good. But Ella is insufferable as a main character.

I'm not sure what point of her having a husband was at all. If he's removed from the story practically nothing changes. As is, he only serves to show us how awful Ella is. He's nothing but loving, understanding, and supportive. Even when he doesn't understand. And she's just treats him awfully, lies to him, cheats on him. And overall just behaves irrationally towards him for no real reason.

The story would have played out MUCH better had she been single or recently divorced or Rick was a douchebag, but sadly none of these are the case. So we get a very unlikeable main character in a very interesting story.

Wonderful listen!

I loved this book. The readers were excellent and the story was captivating. Part mystery, part romance, totally satisfying.

Most enjoyable

for me this was was hard to put down or turn off as the case may be.
At first I wasn't sure of the connection between Ella Turner and Isabelle du Moulin but the more I listened the more interested I became and the more I wanted to hear. I read 2 books by this author and have REALLY enjoyed both. I would strongly recommend The Virgin Blue and and The Girl With The Pearl Earring. I plan to listen to or read more of Tracy C.

Loved this Book

I really like the reading especially...the back and forth between long ago and the present. We really liked it alot.