The improbability of love
"In The Improbability of Love we meet Annie McDee, thirty-one, who is working as a chef for two rather sinister art dealers. Recovering from the end of a long-term relationship, she is searching in a neglected secondhand shop for a birthday present for her unsuitable new lover. Hidden behind a rubbe...
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2015.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Rothschild, Hannah, |d 1962- | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The improbability of love / |c Hannah Rothschild. |
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Knopf, |c 2015. | |
| 300 | |a 407 pages ; |c 25 cm | ||
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| 520 | |a "In The Improbability of Love we meet Annie McDee, thirty-one, who is working as a chef for two rather sinister art dealers. Recovering from the end of a long-term relationship, she is searching in a neglected secondhand shop for a birthday present for her unsuitable new lover. Hidden behind a rubber plant on top of a file cabinet, a grimy painting catches her eye. After spending her meager savings on the picture, Annie prepares an elaborate birthday dinner for two, only to be stood up. The painting becomes hers, and as it turns out, Annie has stumbled across a lost masterpiece by one of the most important French painters of the eighteenth century. But who painted this masterpiece is not clear at first. Soon Annie finds herself pursued by interested parties who would do anything to possess her picture. For a gloomy, exiled Russian oligarch, an avaricious sheikha, a desperate auctioneer, and an unscrupulous dealer, among others, the painting embodies their greatest hopes and fears. In her search for the painting's identity, Annie will unwittingly uncover some of the darkest secrets of European history -- as well as the possibility of falling in love again. Irreverent, witty, bittersweet, The Improbability of Love draws an unforgettable portrait of the London art scene, but it is also an exuberant and unexpected journey through life's highs and lows and the complexities of love and loss." -- Provided by publisher. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Single women |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Painting |x Collectors and collecting |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Art dealers |v Fiction. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a London (England) |v Fiction. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Fantasy fiction. |2 lcgft | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Romantic suspense fiction. |2 gsafd | |
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