The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild

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When lovelorn Annie McDee stumbles across a dirty painting in a junk shop while looking for a present for an unsuitable man, she has no idea what she has discovered. Soon she finds herself drawn unwillingly into the tumultuous London art world, populated by exiled Russian oligarchs, avaricious Sheikas, desperate auctioneers and unscrupulous dealers, all scheming to get their hands on her painting – a lost eighteenth-century masterpiece called ‘The Improbability of Love’. Delving into the painting’s past, Annie will uncover not just an illustrious list of former owners, but some of the darkest secrets of European history – and in doing so she might just learn to open up to the possibility of falling in love again.

“Deliciously wicked…Exquisitely written, shimmering with eye-catching detail…Beneath all that, there’s a serious debate about the value we put on things – whether it’s art or relationships – and the prices we’re prepared to pay. A masterpiece”
Daily Mail

WINNER OF THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE FOR COMIC FICTION 2016

13 x 20 cm

Paperback
416 pages

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing 2015

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Hannah Rothschild is a writer and film Director. Her first novel, The Improbability of Love, won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for best comic novel and was shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. She writes original and adapted screenplays and also for major newspapers and magazines in the US and UK. Her documentary features have been broadcast on major networks and shown at film festivals.

ISBN: 9781408862469

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