“The Secret of Marie” is a new novel of art history set in Claude Monet’s Giverny, France. It is two love stories set in the same village: a modern-day romance between a French architect and American writer in 2004, and one between storied American impressionist painter Theodore Robinson and his Parisian model, known to this day only as “Marie,” 100 years earlier. “The Secret of Marie” is the third novel by my friend Rebecca Bricker, an American expat based in Florence, Italy.
