Love, high living, intrigue and a missing painting.
No picture ever came more beautiful than Raphael's Pandora. Discovered by a dashing young lieutenant, Raymond Kelvedon in a Normandy Chateau in 1944, she had cast her spell over his 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- Jupiter, Alizarin, Jonathan and superbrat Sienna. Then an exquisite stranger rolls up, claiming to be a long-lost daughter of the family, setting the three Belvedon brothers at each other's throats. Accompanying her is her fatally glamorous boyfriend, whose very different agenda includes an unhealthy interest in the Raphael.
During a fireworks 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.
Love, high living, intrigue and a missing painting.
No picture ever came more beautiful than Raphael's Pandora. Discovered by a dashing young lieutenant, Raymond Kelvedon in a Normandy Chateau in 1944, she had cast her spell over his 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- Jupiter, Alizarin, Jonathan and superbrat Sienna. Then an exquisite stranger rolls up, claiming to be a long-lost daughter of the family, setting the three Belvedon brothers at each other's throats. Accompanying her is her fatally glamorous boyfriend, whose very different agenda includes an unhealthy interest in the Raphael.
During a fireworks 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.
Love, high living, intrigue and a missing painting.
Jilly Cooper is a journalist, author and media superstar. The
author of many number one bestselling books, she lives in
Gloucestershire.
She has been awarded honorary doctorates by the Universities of
Gloucestershire and Anglia Ruskin, and won the inaugural Comedy
Women in Print lifetime achievement award in 2019. She was also
appointed DBE in 2024 for services to literature and charity.
Open the covers of Jilly Cooper's latest novel and you lift the lid
of a Pandora's box. From the pages flies a host of delicious and
deadly vices... Cooper's sheer exuberance and energy are
contagious... Cooper fans will be waiting eagerly for the next
novel
*The Times*
The whole thing is a riot - vastly superior to anything else in a
glossy cover
*Daily Telegraph*
This is Jilly in top form with her most sparkling novel to date
*Evening Standard*
One reads her for her joie de vivre, her maudlin romanticism, her
love of arty references and her razor sharp sense of humour. Oh,
and the sex
*New Statesman*
Cooper is astute when describing the complex relationships between
men and women. She's also on the nail when it comes to
teenage-speak and can bring the English countryside alive more
deftly than many literary stars... She's irresistible... Like
Harvey Nicks and the promise of romantic dalliance, she frees you
from the daily drudge and deposits you in an alternative universe
where love, sex and laughter rule
*Independent on Sunday*
A new Jilly Cooper novel guarantees a great summer for everyone...
She tells a marvellous story with total conviction, and also hooks
the reader from the first page. Her latest, an irreverant look at
the international art world is full of fun and sex - and quite
unputdownable. This is Jilly at her irrepressible best
*Publishing News*
Pandora is a smart portrait of the venal, greedy and pretentious
underbelly of the high art scene... Most impressive is [Cooper's]
gift for crowd scenes... Cooper moves her cast about in ways that
elaborate their characters, fuel the plot and ensure that set
pieces are never boring
*Irish Independent*
Pandora is the best book Jilly has produced since Rivals... the
action is priceless
*Sunday Express*
Triumphantly good
*The Sunday Times*
The prospect of Jilly's return, with a novel set in the glamorous
international art world and promising "oodles of bad behaviour,
intrigue, passion, tears and laughter", will surely cheer all but
the most misanthropic
*Bookseller*
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