In the 17th century Holland a young widow leaves her hometown and ends up using her artistic talents in making Dutch porcelain. The journey is filled with dramatic, though often unrealistic turns, which make Midnight Blue quite an addictive read. It also helps that the chapters are short and the writing simple. It didn’t come across as very historically accurate though, but that might also be the translation: Simone van der Vlugt wrote the book in Dutch and Jenny Watson translated it into English. But even if the writing wasn’t believable, I felt transported to historic Holland and loved the setting. I just hoped that more time was spent on relationship development and less on plot twists.