Book Corner- Review : Girl With A Pearl Earring.

Girl With A Pearl Earring- Tracy Chevalier.

I haven't been running my blog long enough for you guys to know that I love books. I love nothing more than a long bath with my book and to get so into it that I don't even notice that the water is cold. This is a book I finished yesterday and you can follow me on Goodreads if you want to see more about my books that I want to read and have read. 

           Girl with a Pearl Earring centers on Vermeer's prosperous Delft household during the 1660s. When Griet, the novel's quietly perceptive heroine, is hired as a servant, turmoil follows. First, the 16-year-old narrator becomes increasingly intimate with her master. Then Vermeer employs her as his assistant--and ultimately has Griet sit for him as a model. Chevalier vividly evokes the complex domestic tensions of the household, ruled over by the painter's jealous, eternally pregnant wife and his taciturn mother-in-law. At times the relationship between servant and master seems a little anachronistic. Still, Girl with a Pearl Earring does contain a final delicious twist.  

Well done if you read that.  It isn't the best of summary's but if I tried to write my own summary you wouldn't understand a word. This book is mysterious and amazing written. 

If you are wondering Vermeer was a real painter and Girl with a Pearl Earring is a real painting. But what Tracy has done is taken a painting of a girl no-one knew anything about, and made a story about her.

Girl with a Pearl Earring is a real painting. But what Tracy has done is taken a painting of a girl no-one knew anything about, and made a story about her.
No one knew anything about the girl in the painting at all, but she has written this so well that I thought it was a true story until I did some research myself.

It is an extraordinary book and I recommend. 

5 out of 5. 

If you have any book recommendations PLEASE tell me.

Erin xxx