Tulip Fever

From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Tulip Fever is now re-jacketed along with the rest of Deborah Moggach's books in gorgeous series style'A gorgeous novel' Mail on SundayFrom the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel comes a thrilling story of power, lust and deception...Seventeenth-century Amsterdam - a city in the grip of tulip fever.Sophia's husband Cornelis is one of the lucky ones grown rich from this exotic new flower. To celebrate, he commissions a talented young artist to paint him with his beautiful bride. But as the portrait grows, so does the passion between Sophia and the painter; and ambitions, desires and dreams breed an intricate deception and a reckless gamble.Now a major film starring Oscar winners Dame Judi Dench, Alicia Vikander and Christoph Waltz and adapted for the screen by Sir Tom Stoppard.

“"Beautifully written, a verbal kaleidoscope that flicks rapidly through vivid sensual experience." -- The Independent on Sunday "Spirited and ingenious...Clever, spry, and sad in equal measure." -- The Telegraph "Moggach reproduces the coded language of 17th-century Dutch art with subtle artfulness. At the same time, she tells a truly thrilling love story." -- The Financial Times "Moggach's writing is as vivid as a splash of Vermeer's lemon yellow." -- The Times "A gorgeous novel: both funny and tragic, full of sharply drawn characters and equally sharp insight into the transforming power of love--which can be as destructive as it is addictive." -- The Mail From the Hardcover edition.”

A story of love, deceit, changelings, and mistaken identity worthy of a Restoration dramatist Daily Mail
A sumptuous and enthralling novel about art, love, illusion and money...with the denouement of a classic The Times
A byzantine plot that hurtles towards disaster, while retaining the polished veneer of a Dutch interior Harpers & Queen
Sensuous and masterly...a gorgeous novel Mail on Sunday
Clever, spry and sad in equal measure...a pacy plot whose twists and shifts of viewpoint make for much anxious page-turning Daily Telegraph

Deborah Moggach is the author of many successful novels including Tulip Fever and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which was made into a top-grossing film starring Judi Dench, Bill Nighy and Maggie Smith. Her screenplays include the film of Pride and Prejudice, which was nominated for a BAFTA. She lives in Wales.

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