Girl Braiding Her Hair

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Her close friends included Van Gogh Degas and Renoir. As a sought-after model Paris celebrated her - until she picked up the brush herself at a time when art schools refused to accept female students.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I had a hard time putting the book down to go to sleep at night. Kaela Mays</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>By the time Suzanne Valadon--a bastard from the tenements--was 15 years- old she's been a horse walker a milliner's assistant a funeral wreath maker and a circus acrobat but that was just the beginning of her adventures. Here is her story along with Ellie's a modern woman a century later at a crossroads of her life who pulls Suzanne from the shadows of the past into the light.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The absolute best book of the year. Denise McDonald</span></p>