Praise for The School of Mirrors
“A gorgeously written saga of life in 18th-century France. . . . [Stachniak’s] academic and literary background are evident in her gorgeous prose and historical detail.” —Winnipeg Free Press
“Stachniak combines a delicately embroidered historical world with enduring situations. . . . This accomplished novel should enthrall Francophiles and women’s history enthusiasts.”—Booklist
Praise for The Chosen Maiden
“I absolutely adored The Chosen Maiden! Such masterful, sensitive writing, I was immersed from the first page to the last. Eva Stachniak illuminates those historic pathways, blazed at such personal cost, by the ‘dance-greats.’ Most of all, I loved the humanizing of these characters—Bronia, Vaslav, Sergei Diaghilev—who imprinted their genius on our culture, whose names are so familiar, but whose origins and inner lives were not—until now.” —Veronica Tennant, author of On Stage, Please, filmmaker and prima ballerina
Praise for The Winter Palace
“Stachniak has uncovered a treasure trove of rich material. . . . [Her] vision casts light over recent Russian history too, which is exactly what a piece of historical fiction should do.”
—The Globe and Mail
“A sweeping novel.”
—O, The Oprah Magazine Magazine