"As historical fiction, Girl with a Pearl Earring convinces, but as a study of human nature, honed by hindsight, it dazzles. Chevalier brings an impressive combination of passion, outtrage and perception to a novel which is beautiful and brutal."
--- The Irish Times
"...a wonderful novel, mysterious, steeped in atmosphere...deeply revealing about the procee of painting...a truly magical experience."
--- The Guardian
"Tracy Chevalier has wonderfully evoked the Delft of the mid-seventeenth century Netherlands...The novel is as subtly haunting as the best of Eric Rohmer's films."
--- Time Out