The Lady and the Unicorn Horror Book Review

Bewitching art experts and enthusiasts alike for centuries, the Lady   and the Unicorn tapestries hang today in the Cluny Museum in Paris.

  In each, an elegant lady and a unicorn stand or sit on an island of grass surrounded by a   rich background of animals and flowers. Little is known about them except that they were   woven toward the end of the fifteenth century and bear the coat of arms of a wealthy   family from Lyons.

  Tracy Chevalier takes readers back to the tapestries’ creation, giving life to the men who   designed and made them, as well as the wives, daughters, and servants who exercised   subtle (and not so subtle) influences over their men. Like the many different strands of   wool and silk that were woven together into one cloth, the lives and fates of these people   entwine in complex patterns, crisscrossing as they seek desires sensual and spiritual,  temporal and eternal.

  An extraordinary story exquisitely told, Tracy Chevalier’s The Lady and the   Unicorn weaves history and fiction into a beautiful, timeless, and intriguing literary   tapestry that rivals in grace and grandeur the masterpiece that inspired it.