Girl with a Pearl Earring

By: Tracy Chevalier

Narrated by: 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

engaging narrator for an unexpected back story

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

excellent

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

Compelling Story

Narration pace was good. The characters were well developed and engaging. Loved that the ending was a full circle.

Hard to remember it's fiction

A fictional story about one of the world's most famous paintings told in such realistic detail as to be a biography rather than fiction. Very well written and read.