Fülszöveg
1763. As candles flicker in the falling dusk along Pali Mail, Filipo di Vecellio, feted portrait painter from Florence, and his beautiful wife Angelica entertain the cream of London's art world in their fashionable home, with Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough
among the guests, and William Hogarth a disapproving observer. Little is known of Filipo's past or his family - except in the shadows sits his sister, Francesca, who watches, and listens, and waits.
For beneath the opulence and success, the house conceals a swarm of dangerous secrets, corruption and lies. Filipo's ambition has meant numerous, terrible sacrifices for Francesca
but he is not the only painter, nor the only one capable of fraud. And as the great wild city of trade and business expands its grasping, avid tentacles, a climax erupts involving love and passión - and the quiet sister who has waited so long . . .
PRAISE FOR BARBARA EWING
'A compelling storyteller, Ewing puts on a masterly performance in...
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Fülszöveg
1763. As candles flicker in the falling dusk along Pali Mail, Filipo di Vecellio, feted portrait painter from Florence, and his beautiful wife Angelica entertain the cream of London's art world in their fashionable home, with Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough
among the guests, and William Hogarth a disapproving observer. Little is known of Filipo's past or his family - except in the shadows sits his sister, Francesca, who watches, and listens, and waits.
For beneath the opulence and success, the house conceals a swarm of dangerous secrets, corruption and lies. Filipo's ambition has meant numerous, terrible sacrifices for Francesca
but he is not the only painter, nor the only one capable of fraud. And as the great wild city of trade and business expands its grasping, avid tentacles, a climax erupts involving love and passión - and the quiet sister who has waited so long . . .
PRAISE FOR BARBARA EWING
'A compelling storyteller, Ewing puts on a masterly performance in recreating Victorian England' Independent on The Mesmerist
'A delightful plum pudding of a historical növel' Sunday Times on Rosetta
'First rate A consistently entertaining, amusing and enlightening növel' Sunday Telegraph on The Mesmerist
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