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“[A] bright, champagne-fizzy satire of modern romance, human avarice, and the booming international art market.” —Entertainment Weekly“A romp, a joy, and an inspired feast of clever delights.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love“Delightful. . . . A delicious and sometimes devastating satire of what the art world has become.” —The New Republic   “Impressive. . . . A treat for Anglophiles, Francophiles, art snobs, and skeptical romantics.” —Bustle“Riveting. . . . With its colorful cast of characters and richly layered plot, The Improbability of Love is entertaining and suspenseful.” —USA Today “A scintillating new novel.” —Harper’s Bazaar “A propulsive yarn. . . . Makes an impassioned case for art — as a companion to the lonely, as a restorative to those in pain. . . .  Beauty inspires both passion and violence; in The Improbability of Love, you get a generous helping of both.” —The New York Times Book Review “Rothschild whets our appetite for art world intrigue.” —W  “[A] romp through the art world . . . [Rothschild] understands how great art humanises . . . her writing shows brain as well as a heart.” —The Economist “Enormously readable. . . . Energetic, clever, sometimes funny, sometimes sad and serious . . . with a romance, at least one mystery, even some thriller elements.” —Washington Times “Deftly pings between comedic romance and biting satire of London's art world.” —Sotheby’s “Totally delicious; conspicuous consumption on this scale hasn’t been seen since the Eighties.” —The Times (London) “Clever, funny, beguiling and wholly humane. . . . Reads like a confection concocted by Anita Brookner and Judith Krantz . . . Scholarly, passionate and enticing.” —The Independent (London) “[A] satire worthy of the pen of Evelyn Waugh. A real crowd pleaser.” —Daily Express “[A] pacy satire of the art world . . . Rothschild dishes up a salmagundi of unscrupulous dealers, desperate auctioneers and dodgy art experts, with a side-order of scheming Russian oligarchs.” —Sunday Herald “Satirical, provocative, and exceedingly humorous. . . . Rothschild delights us with glimpses of London life—as louche, chic, and freakish as early Evelyn Waugh.” —John Richardson, author of A Life of Picasso  “Hugely entertaining. . . . [A] brilliant satire on the highest echelons of the art market.” —Antony Beevor, author of Ardennes 1944 “A blistering, uninhibited and hilarious satire of the London art scene . . . The writing is so good, interweaving a complex set of love stories of different kinds: romantic love, filial love, love of art.” —BookPage “Dazzling. . . . An opulently detailed, suspensefully plotted, shrewdly witty novel of decadence, crimes ordinary and genocidal, and improbable love.” —Booklist (starred review) “Compulsively readable, immensely enjoyable . . . [An] irresistible blend of art, mystery, and intrigue along the lines of Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch.” —Library Journal

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About the Author

Hannah Rothschild is the author of The Baroness: The Search for Nica, the Rebellious Rothschild. She is also a film director whose documentaries have appeared at such festivals as Telluride and Tribeca. She has written for British Vanity Fair, Vogue, The Independent, and The Spectator, and is vice president of the Hay Literary Festival, a trustee of the Tate Gallery, and the first woman chair of the National Gallery in London. www.hannahrothschild.com

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Product details

Paperback: 512 pages

Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (September 6, 2016)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1101872578

ISBN-13: 978-1101872574

Product Dimensions:

5.2 x 0.9 x 8 inches

Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.0 out of 5 stars

366 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#194,234 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Hannah Rothschild has the potential of becoming a wonderful writer. However, she in need of an editor that will help her realize she is jamming in too many plots that are great ideas for other stories. The book was a nice past-time read with interesting twists. Unfortunately, when you find your self skimming through pages and wanting the story to end because of unnecessary sub-plots, the potential of the story becomes weak.

As a fan of mysteries with subjects in the literary and art history worlds, "The Improbability of Love" more than satisfied as a fun read full of history, murder, Nazis, culinary arts & of course, love. A story of a lost then found masterwork, the author deftly wove the narrative of many characters to a satisfying conclusion and I found her idea of giving a voice to the painting itself quite clever- it was a great way to reveal the painting's provenance & history to the reader in a unique way. That 300 year old Watteau painting was one of the best characters! Great summer read- like a trip to the National Gallery without leaving your beach chair.

This book was recommended to me by two people, so I thought I would give it a shot.Truth be told, it was long winded at points, there were more characters than necessary... to the point people are detailed in full, leading you to believe we are introduced to another lead... then never heard from again... the twists were fun, the details about the world of art were interesting, love and romance score points with me, but the good parts were often lost because of the exhaustive and unneeded details of non, plot-critical events and people.

This started off as a great book for me. The first I've ever listened too on audiobook. I also read along as I listened. I found the first 3\4 of the book intriguing, engaging and I was hooked. But the last quarter kind of dragged and took away from the whole experience for me. It suddenly took an unexpected direction that I don't think it needed. That last storyline just disturbed all the pleasure I had from reading the story.**********spoiler alerts*************Spoiler discussion here******Rebecca setting Annie up! And that whole debacle! I was so thrown. Here I thought we were getting closer and closer to the auction and nope we get conspiracy and cover up and I just really did not enjoy this twist. I feel it was unneeded. And it took me out of the reading experience and out of the story as I sat there wondering why in the world the author chose this direction. Not every story needs some dramatic twist at the end. Anyway that turned my otherwise 5 star rating down to 3 stars.

There are two books embedded in this single novel: one is excellent and the other so-so. The book begins with preparations for the auction of a highly-sough-after painting called "The Improbability of Love," which is about to set all kinds of records. We're introduced to the various key bidders who want to acquire this work of art -- the Russian tycoon, the rap singer, the aged American collector, agents for the governments of Britain and France etc etc. They are all described in broad strokes -- stereotypes if not caricatures. At this stage, my heart sank because I really thought reading the rest of the book would be a chore.Fortunately, the author knows a tremendous amount about the art world. The painting in question is revealed to be by the 18th century French artists Watteau (although it seems improbable in itself that a work from this not terribly popular era would command such attention). Parts of the novel are narrated by the picture itself. We learn how it came to be, inspired by a severe case of unrequited love. We learn how it passed through the hands of kings and popes and emperors. We learn about paints, canvases, marks on the backs of canvases, and the short, unhappy life of the artist whose work the author clearly adores.A young woman, Annie, has bought the picture, badly discolored by grease and dirt and the grime of centuries, from a junk shop. We learn much about the art of restoration and the forensic methods used to authenticate an old painting. All this is very interesting. Annie is a chef recovering from a failed love affair. An artist, Jesse, falls in love with her and helps on her somewhat half-hearted quest to discover the origins and provenance of the work. Annie is not interested in Jesse romantically but gradually discovers his real strengths.It previously belonged to a Jewish dealer, Memling Winkleman, who survived the Holocaust and established a giant auction house. He keeps discovering amazing Old Masters and other works of art that build his fortune. But of course there's more to his story than meets the eye. Here we inevitably get into the issue of the grand Nazi theft of art.There are many other characters, some more convincing than others, representing various aspects of the art business. We meet an impecunious British peer struggling to stay afloat. weird experts who devote their lives to studying one artist in immense depth, a fashion adviser who dictates taste and various others. Some of these emerge as real characters but others are very two-dimensions. Tension rises when Annie, a babe in the woods in a world of sharks, is targeted in a diabolical plot.I wish the author had stuck to what she knows because the book is fascinating and strong when it delves into the murky world of the international art business. But she tries to do a bit too much and dilutes the strength of the book with too many sub-plots that rely too much on cliches.

Cleverly plotted, well-written novel. A delight to read. I did not want it to end. The characters are well drawn (pun intended, as the mystery centers on art), and the reader learns a good bit about the dark corners of the international art scene, both historically and today. The one jarring note occurs when the painting at the center of events becomes a character--with a voice! But the author handles that artificial device quite well; and, after all, do not art lovers describe paintings as "speaking" to them? The Wallace Collection, where I spent a happy afternoon a few months ago, is given the prominence it deserves. After reading the book, I learned just how qualified the author is to write about art! Murder, mystery, history, romance--what more could one ask?I did not give the writing five stars ("great") only because I reserve that for what I (and many others) regard as master works. Had there been an option to judge the book "splendid," I would have picked that over the tepid "good" on offer.

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