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A Titian masterpiece. A sumptuous French chateau with a deadly secret. A Nazi warlord with a thirst for art. A vicious crowd and a sinister priest in a France of patriots and traitors. A small boy and his beautiful French mother. A raffish American with a plaintive voice and an enchanted guitar, who breezes into a Bordeaux village, full of mysteries and magic, and changes their lives forever.
Elegant Anouk, a dealer in American antiques, dies leaving the Metropolitan museum a priceless, uncatalogued painting by Titian. Her son, Mischa, was completely unaware of its existence. This mystery sends him on the trail of his own history, back to the French village of his childhood. He expects to uncover the origins of the Gypsy Madonna; he does not expect to find himself.
Santa Montefiore
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Santa Montefiore was born in England in 1970. Inspired by her mother's upbringing in Argentina she spent a year working on an estancia there, then, in the years that followed, all the time she could find free to travel. She lost her heart, not to a man, but to the land and later wrote four novels based in Latin America in an attempt to retrieve it. This she partly achieved, though a fragment of it is so deeply entrenched in the soil that it will be there for ever. She lives in London with her husband, the historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, and their children, Lily and Sasha.
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'Flamboyant, suspenseful and atmospheric' -Mail on Sunday

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