Chris Greenhalgh, screenwriter of the 2009 film Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky, captures the love affair between two unforgettable people: Casablanca actress Ingrid Bergman and legendary photographer Robert Capa, in this heart-wrenching novel Seducing Ingrid Bergman.

Paris. Spring, 1945.

A ripple of excitement passes through the crowd of photographers. Robert Capa jostles amongst them, waiting for a glimpse of the anticipated star. He sees her; beautiful, graceful and composed as she enters the Ritz. It is a chance meeting between the two most unlikely of people. He - a combat photographer, she - a famous Hollywood actress.

So begins a sweeping and passionate love affair between Ingrid Bergman and Robert Capa, one they must keep a secret from Hollywood and Ingrid's controlling husband. Desperate to be together, Ingrid vows to abandon her marriage, but their happiness is brought to a crashing halt with a turn of events neither of them could ever have predicted.

Romantic, passionate and full of the glamour of 40s Paris and Hollywood, the true love affair between the iconic Casablanca actress and famous photographer is a story of love, loss and longing.

'A fine, entrancingly poetic novel'

Chris Greenhalgh is the prize-winning author of three volumes of poetry, a novel, and wrote the screenplay for Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky, which occupied the prestigious closing slot at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. He lives with his wife and two sons in Sevenoaks.

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