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Pandora Jilly Cooper

Pandora By Jilly Cooper

Pandora by Jilly Cooper


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Summary

Jilly Cooper explores the art world - where successful young artists strut around like rock stars and where the more beautiful the painting, the greater the backstabbing. And few pictures are more beautiful than Raphael's Pandora, a painting which dominates the lives of the Belvedon family.

Pandora Summary

Pandora by Jilly Cooper

Jilly Cooper's ritzy, riotous new novel takes the lid off the international art world - where successful young artists strut around like rock stars, where artful and crafty dealers indulge in every kind of gallery-pokery, and where the more beautiful the painting, the greater the backstabbing. No picture ever came more beautiful than Raphael's Pandora. Discovered by a dashing young lieutenant, Raymond Belvedon, in a Normandy Chateau in 1944, she had cast her spell over the Belvedon family - all artists and dealers - for fifty years. Hanging in a turret of their lovely Cotswold house, Pandora witnessed Raymond's tempestuous wife Galena both entertaining a string of lovers and giving birth to her four children. These children grow up into chilly, manipulative Jupiter, who runs the family gallery, Alizarin the high-handed loner, Jonathan, who blithely beds every beauty he paints, and superbrat Sienna, shortlisted for the Turner Prize. Pandora, meanwhile, has been locked away in her turret, increasing her colossal value by the second. Then an exquisite stranger rolls up, claiming to be a long-lost daughter of the family and setting the three Belvedon brothers at one another's throats. Accompanying her is Zach, her fatally glamorous American Jewish boyfriend, whose very different agenda includes an unhealthy interest in the Raphael. During a firework party, the painting is stolen. The hunt to retrieve it takes the reader on a thrilling journey to Vienna, Geneva, Paris, New York and London. After a nail-biting court case and a record-smashing Old Masters sale at Sotheby's, passionate love triumphs and Pandora is restored to her rightful home.

About Jilly Cooper

Jilly Cooper is a well-known journalist, writer and media superstar. The author of many bestselling books, including Riders, Rivals, Polo, The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous, Appassionata and Score!, she and her husband live in Gloucestershire with several dogs and cats.

Additional information

GOR003534128
9780552148504
0552148504
Pandora by Jilly Cooper
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Transworld Publishers Ltd
20030602
609
N/A
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