The Lady and the Unicorn is a tour de force of history and imagination. Tracy Chevalier masterfully unravels the mystery behind one of the art world’s great masterpieces—a set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. These tapestries appear to portray the seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind their making is unknown—until now.

Paris, 1490: A shrewd French nobleman commissions six lavish tapestries to celebrate his rising status at Court. He hires the charismatic, arrogant, and sublimely talented Nicolas des Innocents to design them. Nicolas creates havoc among the women in the nobleman's house—mother and daughter, servant, and lady-in-waiting—before taking his designs north to the Brussels workshop where the tapestries are to be woven.

There, master weaver Georges de la Chapelle risks everything he has to finish the tapestries—his finest, most intricate work—on time for his exacting French client. The results change all their lives—lives that have been captured in the tapestries, for those who know where to look.

In The Lady and the Unicorn, Chevalier weaves fact and fiction into a beautiful, timeless, and intriguing literary tapestry—an extraordinary story exquisitely told.