The Virgin Blue

Meet Ella Turner and Isabelle du Moulin—two women born centuries apart, yet bound by a fateful family legacy

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. 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.

As the novel unfolds—alternating between Ella’s story...