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The lady and the unicorn

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This is the wonderful novel from the much-loved author of "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and "Falling Angels". "The Lady and the Unicorn" tapestries are a set of six medieval tapestries.

Beautiful, intricate and expertly made, they are also mysterious in their origin and meaning.

Tapestries give an appearance of order and continuity, as if designed and made by one person, belying the complicated process required to create them.

Weavers, patrons, designers, artists, merchants and apprentices were involved in their making, and behind them were the wives, daughters and servants who exercised influences over their men.

Like the many strands of wool and silk woven together into one cloth, so these people came together in a complex dance to create the whole picture.

Jean le Viste, a newly wealthy member of the French court, commissions the tapestries to hang in his chateau.

Nicolas, his chosen designer, meets le Viste's wife Genevieve and his daughter Claude, both of whom take a keen interest in the tapestries.

From Paris, Nicolas moves to a weaver's workshop in Brussels in order to complete the commission.The creation of the tapestries brings together people who would not otherwise meet - their lives become entangled, and so do their desires.

As they fall in love, are shunned, take revenge, find unrequited love, turn to the church or to pagan ideals, the tapestries become to each an ideal vision of life - yet all discover that they are unable to make this ideal world their own.

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HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
0007172311 / 9780007172313
Paperback / softback
813.6
04/12/2006
United Kingdom
English
Historic novels
292 pages
20 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: London: HarperCollins, 2003.
The wonderful novel from the much--loved author of 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' and 'Falling Angels'. / 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' has sold over one million copies in paperback. / The hardback of 'The Lady and the Unicorn' was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller. / 'Falling Angels' has sold over 175,000 copies in paperback to date. / Gorgeous new package to appeal to a new generation of fans.
The wonderful novel from the much--loved author of 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' and 'Falling Angels'. / 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' has sold over one million copies in paperback. / The hardback of 'The Lady and the Unicorn' was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller. / 'Falling Angels' has sold over 175,000 copies in paperback to date. / Gorgeous new package to appeal to a new generation of fans. FV Historical fiction