I really enjoyed this intriguing story about a famous lost painting called The Improbability of Love I enjoyed discovering how the painting was meaningful to its variety of famous and infamous historical owners over the last 300 years.

The main character, Annie, creates these meals as her own form of art. Delving into the painting’s past, Annie will uncover not just an illustrious list of former owners, but some of the darkest secrets of European history – and in doing so she might just learn to open up to the possibility of falling in love again.īook Worm’s Thoughts: Warning –Do not read this book if you are hungry since it contains beautifully detailed descriptions of historical meals. Soon she finds herself drawn unwillingly into the tumultuous London art world, populated by exiled Russian oligarchs, avaricious Sheikas, desperate auctioneers and unscrupulous dealers, all scheming to get their hands on her painting – a lost eighteenth-century masterpiece called ‘The Improbability of Love’. When lovelorn Annie McDee stumbles across a dirty painting in a junk shop while looking for a present for an unsuitable man, she has no idea what she has discovered.

Synopsis from Goodreads: A dazzling, witty and tenderly savage satire of London life and the art world that is also a surprising and wonderful love story. This ARC was provided by Bloomsbury Publishing (via NetGalley) in exchange for an honest review.

The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild Next up? The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild. While Jen is away at Book Expo America, I’m making my way through the Bailey’s Prize shortlist.

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