“From the first page, I was swept up in Cathy Marie Buchanan’s enchanting new novel. Set in Paris during the late 1800s, moving between Degas’s studio and Zola’s stage, The Painted Girls tells the heartbreaking story of two working-class sisters who must lean on each other to overcome their circumstances in a city on the cusp of a social and cultural revolution. Beautiful and haunting.”
—Amy Greene, author of Bloodroot
“Sisters, dance, art, ambition and intrigue in late 1800s Paris. The Painted Girls offers the best of historical fiction: compelling characters brought backstage at l’Opéra and front and center in Degas’s studio. This one has ‘book club favorite’ written all over it.”
—Meg Waite Clayton, author of The Wednesday Sisters
ALSO BY CATHY MARIE BUCHANAN
The Day the Falls Stood Still
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The Painted Girls
Copyright © 2012 by Cathy Marie Buchanan.
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