Tulip Fever, Paperback/Deborah Moggach

Deborah Moggach's most recent novel was published alongside several non-fiction titles about Tulipmania. Amsterdam, 1630; Cornelis Sandvoort is an elderly Dutchman who has made money speculating on the exotic new flower. He commissions a portrait of himself and his young wife, but Sophia develops an attraction to the painter, Jan van Loos... "Sumptuous and enthralling... a passionate precision, a delight in the sensual that is reminiscent of Michele Roberts" The Times.