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Seventeenth-century Amsterdam is a city in the grip of tulip mania, basking in the wealth it has generated. Sophia's husband Cornelis, an ageing merchant, is among those grown rich from this exotic new flower. To celebrate, he commissions a talented young artist to paint him with his young bride. But as the portrait grows, so does the passion between Sophia and the painter; and as ambitions, desires and dreams breed an intricate deception, their reckless gamble propels their lives towards a thrilling and tragic conclusion.
Seventeenth-century Amsterdam is a city in the grip of tulip mania, basking in the wealth it has generated. Sophia's husband Cornelis, an ageing merchant, is among those grown rich from this exotic new flower. To celebrate, he commissions a talented young artist to paint him with his young bride. But as the portrait grows, so does the passion between Sophia and the painter; and as ambitions, desires and dreams breed an intricate deception, their reckless gamble propels their lives towards a thrilling and tragic conclusion.
A tale of art, beauty, lust, greed, deception and retribution – set in a refined society ablaze with tulip fever.
Deborah Moggach is a British writer, born Deborah Hough on 28 June 1948. She has written 15 novels to date, including The Ex-Wives, Tulip Fever, and, most recently, These Foolish Things. She has adapted many of her novels as TV dramas and has also written several film scripts, including the BAFTA-nominated screenplay for Pride & Prejudice. She has also written two collections of short stories and a stage play. In February 2005, Moggach was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree by her Alma Mater, the University of Bristol. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a former Chair of the Society of Authors, and is on the executive committee of PEN. Rula Lenska is one of Britain's best loved actresses. Since her breakthrough in Rock Follies in 1976, she has appeared in numerous movies, television programmes and stage productions. She has appeared in Coronation Street, EastEnders, Doctor Who, One Foot in the Grave and Footballers' Wives and over the past 45 years has worked alongside British stage and screen celebrities Joan Collins, Tim Curry, Bob Hoskins, Penelope Keith, Joanna Lumley, Miriam Margolyes to name a few! Rula has also voiced numerous audiobooks and appeared in several episodes of the BBC Radio 4’s The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which first aired in May 2005.
'A story of love, deceit, changelings, and mistaken identity worthy
of a Restoration dramatist.'
*The Daily Mail*
'A sumptuous and enthralling novel about art, love, illusion and
money ... with the denouement of a classic.'
*The Times*
'Sumptuous prose ... reads like a thriller.'
*The New York Times Book Review*
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