The Bloomsbury Forgery

When young American painter Ida crosses the Atlantic to England's glittering Jazz Age, she's chasing both art and passion-- specifically, the brilliant poet T.S. Eliot, who might tempt her to leave her husband behind. In the heady world of Virginia Woolf's London, Ida brushes shoulders with geniuses...

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Main Author: Archambeau, Robert
Format: Books Print Book
Published: Regal House Publishing 20261110
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Summary:When young American painter Ida crosses the Atlantic to England's glittering Jazz Age, she's chasing both art and passion-- specifically, the brilliant poet T.S. Eliot, who might tempt her to leave her husband behind. In the heady world of Virginia Woolf's London, Ida brushes shoulders with geniuses and eccentrics before retreating to a grand, possibly haunted country estate to restore a damaged secret portrait of King James and his lover, the Duke of Buckingham. But what begins as an artistic commission soon unravels into a tangle of deceit, forgery, and danger. As Irish gangsters, English aristocrats, and desperate lovers close in, Ida must rely on her wits-- and a ragtag band of artists, heiresses, and dealers-- to save a historic home, her family, and perhaps her sanity. Can art, nerve, and a touch of madness be enough to see her through?
ISBN:9781646037926
1646037928
Author Notes:A lover of mysteries, Surrealism, and Virginia Woolf, Robert Archambeau fled the Canada of his childhood to study literature and work as an antiquarian bookseller in Chicago. Since then he has written art and literary criticism, poetry, and the novel Alice B. Toklas is Missing. Obsessed with tweed jackets, art collecting, and poking around in antique shops and historical novels. He chairs the English department at Lake Forest College.