Imprint: Vintage
Published: 06/01/2000
ISBN: 9780099288855
Length: 288 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm
Weight: 226g
RRP: £8.99
Now a major film starring Oscar winners Dame Judi Dench, Alicia Vikander and Christoph Waltz and adapted for the screen by Sir Tom Stoppard.
From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel comes a thrilling story of power, lust and deception...
Seventeenth-century Amsterdam – a city in the grip of tulip fever.
Sophia’s husband Cornelis is one of the lucky ones grown rich from this exotic new flower.
To celebrate, he commissions a talented young artist to paint him with his beautiful bride.
But as the portrait grows, so does the passion between Sophia and the painter; and ambitions, desires and dreams breed an intricate deception and a reckless gamble.
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 06/01/2000
ISBN: 9780099288855
Length: 288 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm
Weight: 226g
RRP: £8.99
"A story of love, deceit, changelings, and mistaken identity worthy of a Restoration dramatist"
"A sumptuous and enthralling novel about art, love, illusion and money...with the denouement of a classic"
"A byzantine plot that hurtles towards disaster, while retaining the polished veneer of a Dutch interior"
"Sensuous and masterly...a gorgeous novel"
"Clever, spry and sad in equal measure...a pacy plot whose twists and shifts of viewpoint make for much anxious page-turning"