Enormously enjoyable Evening Standard Charming The Times What would you have me paint instead of a battle, Madame?Geneviève de Nanterres eyes gleamed. A unicorn. Keen to demonstrate his new-found favour with the King, rising nobleman Jean le Viste commissions six tapestries to adorn the walls of his château. He expects soldiers and bloody battlefields.
But artist Nicolas des Innocents instead designs a seductive world of women, unicorns and flowers, using as his muses Le Vistes wife Geneviève and ripe young daughter Claude. In Belgium, as his designs spring to life under the weavers fingers, Nicolas is inspired once more by the master weavers daughter Aliénor and her mother Christine. They too will be captured by his threads.
