Nancy Bilyeau, a Michigan native, has worked as an editor on the staffs of InStyle, Rolling Stone, and Good Housekeeping. She immerses readers in a fictionalized account of real lives and events whilst staying faithful to the historical and social context. and even her life.Ī sequel to Nancy Bilyeau's The Blue, The Fugitive Colours again reveals a dazzling world of glamour and treachery in Georgian England, when beauty held more value than human life. One wrong move could cost her not just her artistic dreams but the love of those she holds dear. Genevieve begins to suspect that her own secret past, when she was caught up in conspiracy and betrayal, has more to do with her entree into London society than her talent. And watching from the shadows are ruthless spies who wish harm to all of England. But such high stakes spur rivalries that darken to sabotage and blackmail-and even murder. She soon learns that for the portrait painters ruling over the wealthy in London society, fame and fortune are there for the taking. Grasping at the promise of a better life, she dares to hope her luck is about to change and readies herself for an entry into the world of serious art. And men definitely control women.Ī Huguenot living in Spitalfields, Genevieve one day receives a surprise invitation from an important artist. Men control the arts and sciences, men control politics and law. The Fugitive Colours is a book you'll have trouble putting down! Kate Quinn, New York Times Bestselling author of The Diamond EyeĪs Genevieve Sturbridge struggles to keep her silk design business afloat, she must face the fact that London in 1764 is very much a man's world.
Bilyeau reliably entertains.The highly anticipated follow-up to the sweeping historical thriller The Blue. Readers will wallow in the fascinating history, all the while admiring Genevieve’s pluck. Along the way, readers learn, among many other things, about the rise of science from the embers of alchemy and about the London art world’s power brokers. An invitation to a memorial gathering for the recently departed William Hogarth at the home of Joshua Reynolds, “the leading artist of all England,” drastically alters the course of Genevieve’s life, puts her nearest and dearest in danger, and places her squarely as a suspect in the murder of a mysterious and odious man.
Set in 1764, Bilyeau’s engrossing sequel to 2018’s The Blue finds Genevieve Sturbridge (née Planché) running her struggling silk design workshop in Spitalfields, a neighborhood in “the east end of damp, murky London.” Genevieve, a spy during the Seven Years’ War, now wants nothing more than to stabilize her business raise her young son, Pierre and make a loving home with her husband, Thomas, himself a former spy, as well as a brilliant chemist, who now works as a tutor to the children of an English peer.
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