No picture ever came more beautiful than Raphael's Pandora. Discovered by a dashing young lieutenant, Rayond Belvedon, in a Normandy Chateau in 1944, she had cast her spell over his family - all artists and dealers - for fity years. Hanging in a turret of their lovely Cotswold house, Pandora witness3ed Raymond's tempestuous wife Galena both entertaining a string of lovers, and giving birth to her four children: Jupiter, Alizarin, Jonathan and superbrat Sienna. Then an exquisite stranger rolls up, claiming to be a long-lost aughter of the family, setting the three Belvedon brothers at each other's throats. Accompanying her is her fatally glamorous boyfriend, whose very different agenda includes an unhealthy interest in the Raphael.

During a fireworks party, the painting is tstolen. The hunt to retrieve it takes the reader on a thrilling journey to Vienna, Geneva, Paris, New York and London. After a nail-biting court case and a record-smashing Old Masters sale at Sotheby's, passionate love triumphs and Pandora is restored to her rightful home.

Reserved for jacinta2000 - please return to me when finished :)

Will start this tonight.

I found myself still not wanting to read this when I was about 200 pages in. I'd quite like someone to tell me how it ends - but I'm not bothered enough to wade through the rest of!

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Thanks! Wow a nice surprise in the post and I am fan of Super Cooper. I have read most of her books apart from Pandora.. The back of the book looks a scream with that superbrat! My brother went to the same school as her child, Felix. It is a nice fat book, perfect summer reading. I will put it to the top of my list. By the way I may be coming to Glasgow 6-8 August and hope to visit Edinburgh Laura.

CAUGHT IN TONBRIDGE KENT ENGLAND