The Virgin Blue

This first novel by the author of GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING is about Ella, an American woman, and her husband, Rick, who move to France, to the town where Ella's ancestors lived centuries ago.As Ella tries to settle in, she has a dream of the color blue. When the dream keeps recurring, and then she finds that a painting in the local museum that features the same blue is by an ancestor, she begins to find affinities with her family's past that go far beyond casual research.