Tulip Fever -
Deborah Moggach
Originele nieuwprijs: € 11.95
KORTE INHOUD
Seventeenth-century Amsterdam a city in the grip of tulip fever.
Sophia's husband Cornelis is one of the lucky ones grown rich from this exotic new flower, and to celebrate he commissions a talented young artist to paint him with his beautiful young bride.
But as the portrait grows, so does the passion between Sophia and the painter; and ambitions, desires and dreams breed an intricate deception and a reckless gamble.
'A sumptuous and enthralling novel about art, love, illusion and money with the denouement of a classic' THE TIMES
Sophia's husband Cornelis is one of the lucky ones grown rich from this exotic new flower, and to celebrate he commissions a talented young artist to paint him with his beautiful young bride.
But as the portrait grows, so does the passion between Sophia and the painter; and ambitions, desires and dreams breed an intricate deception and a reckless gamble.
'A sumptuous and enthralling novel about art, love, illusion and money with the denouement of a classic' THE TIMES