Lisette's List A Novel

[Susan] Vreeland s love of painters and painting, her meticulous research and the pitch-perfect descriptive talents that distinguished such books as Girl in Hyacinth Blue and Luncheon of the Boating Party are abundantly evident in her new novel. The Washington Post
 
[Lisette s List] great strength is its lovingly detailed setting, a mountaintop village like some fantasy kingdom from a child s folk legend, altogether dazzling whose charm gradually enwraps the reader just as it does the initially resistant Lisette. . . . Readers will enjoy lingering in the sun-dappled, fruit-scented Provençal landscape that Vreeland brings to life. The Boston Globe
 
Part romance, part historical fiction, part travelogue, part art history text . . . Vreeland knows her art, she knows Provence, and she s done her historical homework. . . . Lisette s List offers its readers a pleasurable opportunity to learn something about art, history and ocher, and to enjoy a plucky heroine who grows in ways she never thought possible. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
 
Mesmerizing . . . Vreeland s passionate writing is as good as a private showing at the Louvre. Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
 
An entrancing novel of joy and heartache . . . Vreeland provides the reader with a broad spectrum of emotions. The Free Lance-Star

The novel s heart is its patient interweaving of sensuous, meticulously observed details with themes of forgiveness, female strength, and survival. Publishers Weekly
 
Lisette s List is heartfelt, loving and lovely, and asks difficult questions beautifully. Shelf Awareness