Tracy Chevalier Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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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.

Ex-Wife
Ursula Parrott
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
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Trespasses
Louise Kennedy
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
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Fingersmith
Sarah Waters
@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
Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout
@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
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
Jonathan Freedland
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
Lockdown
Peter May
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
So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
Claire Keegan
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
On the Calculation of Volume (Book I): Shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize
Solvej Balle
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
The Attic Child
Lola Jaye
I loved this book, even when it made me cry 💛
Hardcover, 2022
$27.99Member price:$13.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mona's Eyes
Thomas Schlesser
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