In 1664, sixteen-year-old Grier enters the Vermeer household as a servant. Daughter of a Delft tiel maker, sh and design. Daily, she cleans the studio, learning much about how Vermeer sees the people he paints. As his slowly becomes one of his subjects. Tracy Chevalier fills this unusual love story with the shades, sounds, and Holland. Narrator Ruth Ann Phimister perfectly voices Griet's growing awareness of the intrigues surrounded the value of her life.