The Girl with a pearl earring, by Tracy Chevalier

***** This book is a treasure!  It is a historical fiction, lovely!


It is the life o a girl, working in the house of the famouse painter Johannes Vermeer.  The description of the household and of the  town of Delft will take you there.  In fact I was so fascinated with the story that I had to visit Delft for myself, and see what Tracy Chevalier so well described.
Griet, a young girl leaves her home to work as a maid in Vermeer household, but endes being his model and assistant as well as his lover...