02119cam a2200361 i 4500 1164456955 TxAuBib 20151208120000.0 150108s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2014047753 9781101874141 hardback 1101874147 hardback (OCoLC)898228390 DLC eng rda DLC YDXCP BTCTA BDX OCLCO OCLCF QX9 ABG JAO TxAuBib rda Rothschild, Hannah, 1962- The improbability of love / Hannah Rothschild. First American edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. 407 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Originally published: London : Bloomsbury, 2015. "Annie McMorrow, 31 and not recovered from the end of her long-term relationship, is an assistant to film producer Carlo Spinetti and then to his chilling wife Rebecca Winkleman Spinetti whose father started Winkleman Fine Art in Curzon St. Annie has spent her meagre savings on a dusty painting from a junk shop to give to her new, unsuitable, boyfriend who never shows up for his birthday dinner. The painting, now hers, talks, but only to us. Shrewd, spoiled, charming, world weary and cynical, he comments perceptively on Annie, and the modern world and tells tales about his previous owners: Louis XV, Voltaire, Catherine the Great among others. The story unfolds through this voice and many others--unexpected, entertaining, and strangely authentic. Annie will have her apartment ransacked and be pursued by dealers, buyers and an auctioneer in an attempt to get back the painting."-- Provided by publisher. 20151208. Single women Fiction. Painting Collectors and collecting Fiction. Art dealers Fiction. London (England) Fiction. Fantasy fiction. Romantic suspense fiction. TXKIP