Girl with a Pearl Earring

De: Tracy Chevalier

Narrado por: Hattie Morahan

An international best seller with over two million copies sold, this is a story of an artist's desire for beauty and the ultimate corruption of innocence.

17th Century Holland. When Griet becomes a maid in the household of Johannes Vermeer in the town of Delft, she thinks she knows her role: housework, laundry and the care of his six children. But as she becomes part of his world and his work, their growing intimacy spreads tension and deception in the ordered household and, as the scandal seeps out, into the town beyond.

Tracy Chevalier's extraordinary historical novel on the corruption of innocence and the price of genius is a contemporary classic.

©2006 Tracy Chevalier (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

the story behind the painting

I really enjoyed learning more about the art world and Holland at that time and to learn more of the personality of the artist and the subject

excellent

When we allow others to value us;
we hold the greatest debt we do not owe.

engaging narrator for an unexpected back story

I liked the story and the narrator. I found myself listening even when not commuting.

Couldn’t stop listening

I enjoyed this, wished it was a longer book. I wondered where she got her moxie to say such bold things.

Perfect Narration

I’ve listened to this audiobook repeatedly—all over again and chapters independently—since I’ve had it. Hattie Morahan’s narration—her voice and inflections—are in perfect sync with Griet’s (the main character amd narrator of the story) personality. I read the book many times as a teen; the audio has brought it to life in a way I’d have never expected.