Soon to be a major film starring Oscar winners Alicia Vikander Christoph Waltz & Dame Judi Dench & adapted for the screen by Sir Tom Stoppard From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel comes a thrilling story of power lust & deception set in seventeenth-century Amsterdam Seventeenth-century Amsterdam
- a city in the grip of tulip fever Sophia's husband Cornelis is one of the lucky ones grown rich from this exotic new flower To celebrate he commissions a talented young artist to paint him with his beautiful young bride But as the portrait grows so does the passion between Sophia & the painter; & ambitions desires & dreams breed an intricate deception & a reckless gamble