Besides that, I liked Ella and I thought she was a really great character to tell this story.
I hate books where people cheat on each other ( Brooklyn for example) and it can often ruin a perfectly good book for me. My biggest complaint with the whole novel was Ella cheating on Rick. At first, I was angry that Isabelle’s timeline jumped around, but it was done very well and I understood why after a while. I liked the alternating points of view and how Chevalier used them to move the plot along. This was much more magical than the other Chevalier books I’ve read but the summary had prepared me for that. 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. 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. 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. Meet Ella Turner and Isabelle du Moulin-two women born centuries apart, yet bound by a fateful family legacy. Other books by Tracy Chevalier reviewed on this blog:
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