Tulip Fever (9781784700805)

Seventeenth-century Amsterdam - a city in the grip of tulip fever. 
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nSophia's husband Cornelis is one of the lucky ones grown rich from this exotic new flower. 
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nTo celebrate, he commissions a talented young artist to paint him with his beautiful young bride. 
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nBut as the portrait grows, so does the passion between Sophia and the painter; and ambitions, desires and dreams breed an intricate deception and a reckless gamble.