My review:
I found this story a bit too bland and simple. The characters are uninspiring and boring and I did not feel any compassion for Griet. The way of thinking Vermeer has when painting is neat, but it is a shame that the rest of the 17th century atmosphere is not there.

Cover text
Griet, the young daughter of a tilemaker in seventeeth century Holland, obtains her first job, as a servant in Vermeer's household. Tracy Chevalier shows us, through Griet's eyes, the complicated family, the society of the small town of Delft, and life with an obsessive genius. Griet loves being drawn into his artistic life, and leaving her former drudgery, but the cost to her own survival may be high.

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