«The Lady and the Unicorn» by Tracy Chevalier

Keen to demonstrate his favour with the King, nobleman Jean Le Viste commissions six tapestries to adorn his château walls. He expects soldiers and battlefields. But artist Nicolas des Innocents instead designs a seductive world of women, unicorns and flowers, using Le Viste’s wife Geneviève and ripe daughter Claude as muses. As his designs spring to life, Nicolas is inspired once more – by the master weaver’s daughter Aliénor and her mother Christine…