The Woman in the Wallpaper: A Novel by Lora Jones. Union Square & Co., 2025. Historical fiction.

After their beloved father dies, sisters Sofi and Lara must move from Marseilles to Paris where they are offered work in a factory that produces wallpaper. It is the time of the French Revolution and Sofi becomes increasingly involved with politics. Lara, a good artist, attracts the attention of Josef who has inherited the factory, but Josef marries the aristocratic Hortense. The three women are thrown together during the dramatic times and readers will find their struggles intriguing. Lara resembles "the woman in the wallpaper" who was based on Josef's own mother. Can the threads of the  past and the present be tied up?