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Tracy Chevalier Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Tracy Chevalier is an author. Writer; author of 10 novels, including GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING, AT THE EDGE OF THE ORCHARD, and the latest, A SINGLE THREAD.

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Book Cover for: Ex-Wife, Ursula Parrott

Ex-Wife

Ursula Parrott
Tracy ChevalierTracy Chevalier

This novel is an utter surprise. Written in the 1920s yet feels contemporary; it blew out of the water my stereotyped expectations of people's behaviour then. Funny, entertaining, eye-opening. Well worth a read.

Paperback, 2023

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Trespasses, Louise Kennedy

Trespasses

Louise Kennedy
Tracy ChevalierTracy Chevalier

In reviewing Louise Kennedy's novel Trespasses in the Guardian, Kevin Power writes: "The prose manages both to surprise and to delight without ever calling undue attention to itself." This is the Shangri-la most writers are looking for.

Paperback, 2023

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Fingersmith, Sarah Waters

Fingersmith

Sarah Waters
Tracy ChevalierTracy Chevalier

@ronnabloom @lisaontheroad1 Awww...Lisa, can I also suggest The Paying Guests, or Fingersmith, by Sarah Waters. Or Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Paperback, 2002

$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout

Olive Kitteridge

Elizabeth Strout
Tracy ChevalierTracy Chevalier

@ronnabloom @lisaontheroad1 Awww...Lisa, can I also suggest The Paying Guests, or Fingersmith, by Sarah Waters. Or Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Paperback, 2008

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World, Jonathan Freedland

The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

Jonathan Freedland
Tracy ChevalierTracy Chevalier

Ok I'm pontificating in this clip, but about a remarkable book, The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freeland, deservedly shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize. One of my books of the year. @Freedland @BGPrize https://t.co/Vu64NuRT3b

Paperback, 2023

$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Lockdown, Peter May

Lockdown

Peter May
Tracy ChevalierTracy Chevalier

Today's #Lockdown art: Portrait of Margaretha de Geer by Rembrandt (1661). Very hard to keep this painter out of my favourites because, alongside Vermeer & Cezanne, he is a genius. I love how she is so stern and controlled, yet crumpling the handkerchief her one sign of weakness. https://t.co/zRxxsxzXp7

Paperback, 2020

$16.99Member price:$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men, Claire Keegan

So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men

Claire Keegan
Tracy ChevalierTracy Chevalier

What a gem this is. Every word counts. Also, Claire Keegan is the queen of the seemingly unnecessary but well-placed comma. I expect she and her copy editor had some tussles...

Hardcover, 2023

$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: On the Calculation of Volume (Book I): Shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize, Solvej Balle

On the Calculation of Volume (Book I): Shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize

Solvej Balle
Tracy ChevalierTracy Chevalier

This book. Whoa. A woman wakes up and it's 18th November over and over. Like Groundhog Day but without humour (because no Bill Murray) and with philosophising that I'm still thinking about. A very different kind of read. And there are sequels - more 18th Novembers!

Paperback, 2024

$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Attic Child, Lola Jaye

The Attic Child

Lola Jaye
Tracy ChevalierTracy Chevalier

I loved this book, even when it made me cry 💛

Hardcover, 2022

$27.99Member price:$13.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Mona's Eyes, Thomas Schlesser

Mona's Eyes

Thomas Schlesser
Tracy ChevalierTracy Chevalier

I have way too much to read this summer, but how can I resist those eyes?!

Hardcover, 2025

$30.00Member price:$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book