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L'improbabilité de l'amour
Hannah Rothschild
- 10/18
- Litterature Etrangere 10/18
- 15 Juin 2017
- 9782264070432
Ce jour-là à Londres, les collectionneurs de tous bords, puissants marchands d'art, oligarques russes, magnats du pétrole, ou encore rappeurs esthètes, défilent pour une des plus grosses ventes de l'histoire : celle de L'Improbabilité de l'amour, un tableau d'Antoine Watteau, disparu au milieu du XXe siècle et miraculeusement retrouvé. Celle qui, par un incroyable hasard, a remis la main sur le trésor dans une petite brocante poussiéreuse se nomme Annie McDee. Fascinée par la poésie et le raffinement du tableau, cette jeune chef cuisinière au coeur tendre va entreprendre d'en percer les secrets. Un périple à travers l'Histoire qui verra l'inestimable toile voyager de l'atelier parisien d'un peintre du XVIIIe à cette petite échoppe londonienne d'aujourd'hui, en passant par les salons cossus de la grande aristocratie européenne...
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''If you''re in need of a Succession replacement then this tale of a crumbling English dynasty clinging on to the past while coping with the fallout of the 2008 crash is for you. Pure pleasure'' - Stylist ''Delights from start to finish'' Mail on Sunday ''Witty and stylish'' Sunday Times ''Jilly Cooper territory with a whiff of Joanna Trollope ... a lavish saga'' The Times ''Slyly comic'' Red The seat of the Trelawney family for over 800 years, Trelawney Castle was once the jewel of the Cornish coast. Each successive Earl spent with abandon, turning the house and grounds into a sprawling, extravagant palimpsest of wings, turrets and follies.
But recent generations have been better at spending than making money. Now living in isolated penury, unable to communicate with each other or the rest of the world, the family are running out of options. Three unexpected events will hasten their demise: the sudden appearance of a new relation, an illegitimate, headstrong, beautiful girl; an unscrupulous American hedge fund manager determined to exact revenge; and the crash of 2008.
A love story and social satire set in the parallel and seemingly unconnected worlds of the British aristocracy and high finance, House of Trelawney is also the story of lost and found friendships between three women. One of them will die; another will discover her vocation; and the third will find love.>
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WINNER OF THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE FOR COMIC FICTION 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK 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.
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