TY  - BOOK
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TI  - The improbability of love: a novel 
SN  - 9781408862476
U1  - F/ROT 23
KW  - Single women
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Painting
KW  - Collectors and collecting
KW  - Art dealers
KW  - FICTION / Literary
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - FICTION / Contemporary Women
KW  - FICTION / Action & Adventure
KW  - Fantasy fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Romantic suspense fiction
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "Annie McMorrow, 31 and not recovered from the end of her long-term relationship, is an assistant to film producer Carlo Spinetti and then to his chilling wife Rebecca Winkleman Spinetti whose father started Winkleman Fine Art in Curzon St. Annie has spent her meagre savings on a dusty painting from a junk shop to give to her new, unsuitable, boyfriend who never shows up for his birthday dinner. The painting now hers, talks, but only to us. Shrewd, spoiled, charming, world weary and cynical, he comments perceptively on Annie, and the modern world and tells tales about his previous owners: Louis XV, Voltaire, Catherine the Great among others. The story unfolds through this voice and many others--unexpected, entertaining, and strangely authentic. Annie will have her apartment ransacked and be pursued by dealers, buyers and an auctioneer in an attempt to get back the painting. With The Improbability of Love, Rothschild has spun a dazzling tale--both irreverant and entertainng--of a many-layered, devious world where, in the end, love triumphs"--
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