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Jilly Cooper Pandora
Transworld Publishers 0552148504 / 9780552148504 PAPERBACK Good
0552148504 Editorial Reviews n nProduct Description nNo picture ever came more beautiful than Raphael's Pandora. Discovered by a dashing young lieutenant in 1944, she had cast her spell over the Belvedon family for?50 years. Hanging in a turret of their lovely Cotswold house, Pandora witnessed Raymond's wife Galena both entertaining a string of lovers and giving birth to her four children. During a firework party, the painting was stolen, and the hunt to retrieve it takes the reader on a thrilling journey to Vienna, Geneva, Paris, New York, and London. n nFrom the Inside Flap nA novel about love, high living, intrigue and a missing painting. n nRaymond Kelvedon had been a dashing subaltern in 1944 when he had come across the glorious painting by Raphael depicting Pandora releasing the seven deadly sins into the world. The painting ended up on the bedroom wall of his beautiful home, Foxes Court, in the peaceful county of Larkshire. His tempestuous wife, Galina, entertained her lovers there as well as giving birth to her four children beneath its watchful gaze, but after her tragic and mysterious death, Raymond kept the painting hidden away in a tower room, its existence forgotten by most of those who ever knew about it. n nNow, Raymond has a gallery, a new wife and adorable young twins, as well as his four grown children. Then into all their lives erupts Emerald ? lovely, talented and desperately searching for her real parents. Zach Ansteig, an attractive and mysterious American encourages her to go to Foxes Court where, he persuades her, her birth mother will be found. The Kelvedon family is outraged. But Zach is also searching for something ? the Raphael Pandora, which he believes should belong to him. n nFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
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