Pandora : A masterpiece of romance and drama from the No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Jilly Cooper

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The classic bestseller from the author of Rivals, now a major series streaming on Disney+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.PRAISE FOR DAME JILLY COOPER'Fun, sexy and unputdownable - a classic' Marian Keyes‘Flawlessly entertaining’ Helen Fielding‘Joyful and mischievous’ Jojo MoyesJilly Cooper, Sunday Times bestseller, May 2024