Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

A young servant enters Vermeer's luminous world

Good Condition - with a lightly soiled and scuffed dust jacket, creased edges and a small tear at the top front edge. Title page has handwriting, a dated note and an address label. Pages remains clear.

Sixteen-year-old Griet becomes a maid in the Delft household of Johannes Vermeer, where daily duties place her among the tensions of an artist's crowded home. Her sensitivity to colour and composition draws the painter's attention, gradually bringing her into the private world of his studio. Yet this unexpected understanding is complicated by the demands of his family, the interest of a wealthy patron and the strict boundaries separating a servant from those she serves. As Griet becomes part of the creation of an extraordinary portrait, she must judge the cost of remaining close to its maker. Tracy Chevalier imagines the story behind Vermeer's celebrated painting in a historical novel about art, intimacy, class and a young woman's precarious independence.