Pandora. Jilly Cooper

By Jilly Cooper

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 055215640X
• ISBN13: 9780552156400
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Corgi Books
• Length: 750 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 5.0" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Very good read

Jilly Coopers book Pandora is a very good read, set in the world of international art dealing with a mystery suspense plot woven in. She has a lot of new characters as well as favorites like Rupert Campbell-Black now a respectable race horse trainer and businessman. I liked this book and would recommend it to anyone who likes a light read for bedtime or weekend relaxing.

Steamy!

This is a marvellous work of erotica, with no shortage of romantic gratification. I won't give away the details of the intricate story line, but you can rest assured that Pandora 'opens her box' on more than one occasion.