Girl Braiding Her Hair
Inspired by the true story of a revolutionary female artist history forgot
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4.3 • 60 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
"My it's-never-going-to-be-spring attitude put me in the mood to hide away with a book, and this was the perfect one for it. I loved the characters, wanted to be neighbors of theirs...wanted to applaud their talents and strengths." C. Cain
By the time Suzanne Valadon was 15 years old, she’d been a horse walker, a funeral wreath maker, and a circus acrobat. When she began to model for some of the greatest Impressionists, people accused her of having loose morals, but she was an innocent. Until she met Renoir...
Her friends included Van Gogh, Degas, and Toulouse-Lautrec. Artists celebrated her as a sought-after model, but then she picked up the brush herself, at a time when art schools refused to accept female students.
This is her story, along with Ellie's, who a century later at a crossroads of her life, pulls Suzanne from the shadows of the past into the light.
"...filled with drive and emotion...Marta writes so vividly that I felt like I was participating in the adventure." Lin Swens
"I had a hard time putting the book down to go to sleep at night." Kaela Mays
From the author of the bestselling novel THE SECRET LIFE OF SUNFLOWERS.
Recommended Book Club read!
Customer Reviews
Successful women
Thank you for pulling another woman’s story out of the dark. Young women today need to know the paths of the past and how women had to persevere to find their own place in the world; their own success. Kudos to you on the combination of a modern story with a historic one. I enjoyed getting to know both women. Thank you.
Brilliant Book about Art and Life
Loved every bit of this book. What a joy to read about the Impressionist artists as working people and the models they used as inspiration. Also, just because a dream may seem crazy doesn’t mean you can’t make it come true. Don’t listen to the doubters.