6/24/2023 0 Comments Tulip fever bookOut of these circumstances, the infatuated couple formulate a plot, but one that depends on getting together a great deal of money in a short time hence, the frenzied speculation in the value of new and rare breeds of tulip that gives the book its title. Sophia and the artist fall hopelessly in love the Sandvoorts' servant, Maria, is having a child by a man who, thinking himself betrayed by her, has run off and joined the navy meanwhile, Cornelius has always longed for a child. Van Loos comes to paint Sophia, the pretty young wife of wealthy burger Cornelius Sandvoort, which starts a train of events that will irredeemably change all their lives. But whereas such books as Susan Vreeland's Girl in Hyacinth Blue and Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring concentrate on an artist's work, this is a headlong romantic drama that uses the painting of a portrait simply as a jumping-off point. It is yet another story set in 17th-century Holland involving a real-life artist, Jan van Loos. Although Moggach, a well-known TV writer and prolific novelist in her native Britain, has published here before, this book, a bestseller at home last year, is the one that is likely to be her breakout on this side of the water.
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