Tracy Chevalier
The Last Runaway
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A young Quaker woman, Honor Bright, has left her civilized home of Bridport in England for the wild, untamed wilderness…
Remarkable Creatures
The author of Girl with a Pearl Earring returns with the story of an unlikely friendship between two unlikely 19th-century…
Remarkable Creatures
In this novel, Tracy Chevalier turns her novelist’s eye to the life of Mary Anning who, although reasonably well known…
Burning Bright
The novel takes its title from what is probably William Blake’s most famous poem, and its premise is the contrasting,…
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