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Pandora

Rutshire Chronicles, Book 7

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Pandora

By: Jilly Cooper
Narrated by: Sherry Baines
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About this listen

Jilly Cooper returns with love, high living, intrigue and a missing painting.

No picture ever came more beautiful than Raphael's Pandora. Discovered by a dashing young lieutenant, Raymond Kelvedon, in a Normandy chateau in 1944, she had cast her spell over his family - all artists and dealers - for 50 years. Hanging in a turret of their lovely Cotswold house, Pandora witnessed 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 daughter 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 stolen. The hunt to retrieve it takes the listener 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.

©2002 Jilly Cooper (P)2018 W. F. Howes Ltd Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Fiction Funny New York

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Critic reviews

"This is Jilly in top form with her most sparkling novel to date." (Evening Standard)
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I did enjoy this but I feel this is the weakest in the Rutshires

ok

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Really enjoyed this story. Fabulous ending, great characters even if sometimes it felt like too many to remember.

Enjoyable

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I am making my way all the Rutshire Chronicles and feel that since Polo, the other books have gotten progressively less enjoyable. Appassionata was the worst in my opinions. So therefore, I wasn’t expecting to enjoy Pandora so much. I absolutely loved it. Far-fetched? yes but so enjoyable. Jilly has the knack of creating lovable characters (including those of the animal kind). I didn’t want it to end.
Credit also so Sherry Baines as I really enjoy her narration.

Loved it and didn’t expect to

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I'm working my way through the Rutshire series and this has been the best yet. Great characters and good story. Really enjoyed.

Best one yet

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Another excellent book from Cooper. It’s great how you can read it as a stand alone book or a follow on from the previous

Excellent

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