Books
by Deborah Moggach
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Tulip Fever |
Set in Amsterdam in the 1630s, the lives of Sophia Sandvoort, her elderly husband Cornelis and the portraitist Jan van Loos are inextricably linked with that of tulip fever which gripped the city. The fate of them all hinges on the value of a single bulb. Atmospheric and mesmerising.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 3 May 2000) |
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Tulip Fever |
A re-review after 17 years (see bwl 3)! Perhaps not as mesmerising as it seemed then when we had never heard how tulip fever swept 17th century Holland. This is Amsterdam, cold, damp with its canals, cobbled streets and warehouses and those sumptuous paintings of everyday life. A story of love, lust, deception and greed - will Cornelis get the heir that he craves and will Sophia and Jan escape with a fortune?
(Jenny Baker - bwl 86 Autumn 2017) |
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