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From Susan Vreeland bestselling author of such acclaimed novels as Girl in Hyacinth Blue Luncheon of the Boating Party and Clara and Mr. Tiffany comes a richly imagined story of a womans awakening in the south of Vichy Franceto the power of art to the beauty of provincial life and to love in the midst of war.
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In 1937 young Lisette Roux and her husband Andr? move from Paris to a village in Provence to care for Andr?s grandfather Pascal. Lisette regrets having to give up her dream of becoming a gallery apprentice and longs for the comforts and sophistication of Paris. But as she soon discovers the hilltop town is rich with unexpected pleasures.
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Pascal once worked in the nearby ochre mines and later became a pigment salesman and frame maker; while selling his pigments in Paris he befriended Pissarro and C?zanne some of whose paintings he received in trade for his frames. Pascal begins to tutor Lisette in both art and life allowing her to see his small collection of paintings and the Proven?al landscape itself in a new light. Inspired by Pascal??s advice to ??Do the important things first???? Lise