In Sargent’s Women . . . [Lucey] does . . . what she does best, creating a rollicking snow globe version of an almost unimaginable world of wealth, crackpot notions of self-improvement and high-flying self-indulgence.—Amy Bloom, New York Times Book Review

[A] lyrical meditation on life, love, and art in the Gilded Age. . . . Sargent’s Women abounds with dazzling characters in atmospheric settings. . . . As rich as [Sargent’s] portraits are, the textural evidence in which Ms. Lucey ensnares them is finer still.—Jane Kamensky, Wall Street Journal

[Lucey] delivers the goods, disclosing the unhappy or colorful lives that Sargent sometimes hinted at but didn’t spell out. . . . Sargent’s Women is a good read . . . [and its] chatty pleasures are considerable.—Michael Upchurch, Boston Globe

Sargent’s Women has a distinct elegance and potency—Lucey’s writing propels you forward, straight to the heart of the story, along the vibrant ties that linked this fascinating artist to the women he made infamous.—Christene Barberich, global editor-in-chief and cofounder, Refinery29

Like characters from the writings of Edith Wharton, [the women in this book] were smart, passionate, willful, adventurous and striking-looking—particularly when immortalized by John Singer Sargent. . . . Lucey’s prose is invitingly conversational and quick-flowing. Her character sketches are colorful and she is not, thank goodness, above conveying some wonderfully catty gossip.—Alexander C. Kafka, Washington Post

Ingenious.—Frances Wilson, Times Literary Supplement

Choosing four striking Sargent portraits of wealthy, cosmopolitan American women, Lucey vividly reveals the hidden truths of their tumultuous lives, while also succinctly telling the artist’s own intriguing story. . . . Lucey’s superlative group portrait, rendered in crystal-clear prose, is spring-fed by . . . her keen insights into what drove these women to break out of their gilded cages.—Booklist, starred review

[Lucey’s] narrative is engaging and elegant, set in a rich cultural and social framework that insightfully reflects the era.—Library Journal, starred review