Of Irises Blue

By MIREILLE PAVANE

Infidelity and disillusionment send Vivien fleeing to her childhood home where she has spent many a vivid, carefree summer. When she arrives in Montigney, she finds it is as glorious as her memories. But Montigney is also haunted by the past. As the dusk grows near and the shadows lengthen, Vivien is forced to confront the consequences of a chance encounter in Montigney seven summers ago.

• Language: English
• Publisher: MIREILLE PAVANE
• Release date: Dec 7, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393729464

MIREILLE PAVANE

Mireille Pavane cannot recall exactly when she began messing about with books and literature but since then (brainwashed at a young age by the French and Russian writers and E.M. Forster) it has remained an abiding love. Mireille continues to scribble away in secret when not otherwise distracted by a professional career or gardening duties in her alternate life. She also has an unhealthy curiosity and fondness for footnotes which she attempts to curtail from time to time. Mireille is a member of the international and local chapters of the Village Idiots’ Guild.

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The Grand Tour

The Stroke of Midnight

The Ormond Girl

The Lady of the Unicorn

Of Irises Blue

The Princess and the Gargoyle

Envy

The West Wing Chamber

Innocence

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Copyright

Copyright © 2019 Mireille Pavane

Mireille Pavane asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means (including photocopying, recording, scanning, or other electronic or mechanical methods), without the prior written permission of the author and publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other non-commercial uses permitted by copyright law.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, organizations, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Cover design: Mireille Pavane

Cover image: Irises, 1890, Oil on canvas, by Vincent van Gogh. Digital image courtesy of The Met’s Open Access Programme.

Title page image: Emmie_Norfolk from Pixabay

ISBN: 9781393729464

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Synopsis

Infidelity and disillusionment send Vivien fleeing to her childhood home where she has spent many a vivid, carefree summer. When she arrives in Montigney, she finds it is as glorious as her memories. But Montigney is also haunted by the past. As the dusk grows near and the shadows lengthen, Vivien is forced to confront the consequences of a chance encounter in Montigney seven summers ago.

Dedication

To K., you know all the reasons why.

Epigraphs

Il n’est pas donné à chacun de prendre un bain de multitude: jouir de la foule est un art; et celui-là seul peut faire, aux dépens du genre humain, une ribote de vitalité, à qui une fée a insufflé dans son berceau le goût du travestissement et du masque, la haine du domicile et la passion du voyage.

(It is not given to every man to take a bath of multitude: to play upon crowds is an art; and he alone can plunge, at the expense of humankind, into