Girl Braiding Her Hair

"The absolute best book of the year." Denise McDonald


Her friends included Van Gogh, Degas, and Renoir. Paris celebrated her as a sought-after model, until she picked up the brush herself, at a time when art schools refused to accept female students.


By the time Suzanne Valadon was 15 years old, she’d been a horse walker, a milliner, a funeral wreath maker, and a circus acrobat, but that was just the beginning of her adventures. Here is her story, along with Ellie's, a modern woman a century later at a crossroads of her life, who pulls Suzanne from the shadows of the past into the light.


"I had a hard time putting the book down to go to sleep at night." Kaela Mays

"This book is impossible to put down and was quickly devoured!" Debbie Appleby


A brand-new novel from the author of the bestselling novel of THE SECRET LIFE OF SUNFLOWERS.

The perfect Book Club read!