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One of the wittiest writers around' Good Housekeeping 'The perfect summer read: mischievous and delicious. I devoured it in one go.' Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace WHEN THE STAKES ARE HIGH, HOW LOW WILL YOU GO? Ayesha Scott has a perfect life. Home is an art-filled Cornish castle with her stratospherically wealthy, titled husband and their beloved daughter. But behind every realised dream lurks an unexploded nightmare and...

The seat of the Trelawney family for over 700 years, Trelawney Castle was once the jewel of the Cornish coast. Each successive Earl spent with abandon, adding and extending, turning the house and grounds into a sprawling, extravagant palimpsest of wings, turrets and follies. But as the centuries passed the Earls of Trelawney, their senses and ambition dulled by generations of pampered living, failed to develop other skills. Now in 2008 the hou...

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WHEN THE STAKES ARE HIGH, HOW LOW WILL YOU GO? Ayesha Scott has a perfect life. Home is an art-filled Cornish castle with her stratospherically wealthy, titled husband and their beloved daughter. But behind every realised dream lurks an unexploded nightmare and in the course of one day Ayesha discovers that she will be penniless, homeless and powerless unless she can outwit the international mafia, infiltrate the world of high finance and mak...

She wants revenge. she just doesn't know it yet Ayesha has been married to the ruthless, aspirational Thomlinson Sleet for nearly 10 years: the longest any wife of his has lasted. He bought her family home, the beautiful house in Cornwall that was about to be lost to them, and she's forever been in his debt. But now Sleet's decided it's time for a new wife, which means Ayesha - and the wider Trelawney clan - may be about to lose their family...

A modern English comedy of morals and manners, about a highborn family of outrageous characters, in a story that proves revenge can be sweetIn the months leading up to the Brexit referendum,  Ayesha, the beautiful, young secret daughter of the late Enyon Trelawney, has married the much older thuggish banker Tomlinson Sleet with whom she has a young daughter, Stella. Ayesha is busy restoring the once run-down Trelawney Castle in Cornwall, which...

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The seat of the Trelawney family for over 800 years, Trelawney Castle was once the jewel of the Cornish coast. But recent generations have been better at spending than making money. Now living in isolated penury, unable to communicate with each other or the rest of the world, the family are running out of options. Three unexpected events will hasten their demise: the sudden appearance of a new relation, an illegitimate, headstrong, beautiful g...

From the author of The Improbability of Love comes a dazzling novel both satirical and moving, about an eccentric, dysfunctional family of English aristocrats and their crumbling stately home, demonstrating how the lives and hopes of women can be shaped by the ties of family and love.For more than seven hundred years, the vast, rambling Trelawney Castle in Cornwall--turrets, follies, a room for every day of the year, four miles of corridors an...

From the author of The Improbability of Love: a dazzling novel both satirical and moving, about an eccentric, dysfunctional family of English aristocrats, and their crumbling stately home that reminds us how the lives and hopes of women can still be shaped by the ties of family and love.For more than seven hundred years, the vast, rambling Trelawney Castle in Cornwall--turrets, follies, a room for every day of the year, four miles of corridors...

The Cornwall seat of the Trelawney family has fallen on financial hard times, with a series of unexpected events serving to accelerate the family's road to ruin. From the author of "The Improbability Of Love".

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»Ein hinreißender Kunstkrimi mit Lovestory« B. Z. am SonntagAnnie ist auf der Suche nach einem Geschenk. In einem Londoner Trödelladen kauft die junge Köchin ein verstaubtes Gemälde für ihren neuen Freund und wird dann doch abends von ihm sitzen gelassen. Das unscheinbare Bild aber bleibt und stellt ihr ganzes Leben auf den Kopf, denn es scheint viel mehr wert zu sein, als sie ursprünglich dachte. Schon bald sind schwerreiche russische Oligarc...

An extraordinary achievement - perfectly structured, astonishingly objective, wise, perceptive and beautifully written' Antony BeevorBeautiful, spirited Pannonica - known as Nica - was born in 1913 to eccentric privilege. Her family had, in only five generations, risen from Jews Lane in Frankfurt to great wealth in England. By the end of the Second World War, Nica seemed to have it all: wealth, children and a handsome husband. But in the early...

When lovelorn Annie McDee stumbles across a dirty painting in a junk shop, she has no idea what she has discovered. Soon she finds herself drawn into the 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'. Delving into the painting's past, Annie will uncover...

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