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The Marriage of Opposites, EPUB eBook

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From the bestselling author of The Dovekeepers comes a love story about one of historys most captivating invisible women: Rachel, the mother of Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro.

Growing up on the idyllic island of St Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachels mother, a pillar of their tight-knit refugee community of Jews who escaped the European Inquisition, has never forgiven her daughter for refusing to live by the rules. But Rachels fate is not in her own hands: in order to secure the future of her fathers business, she is married off to a widower with three children. When her husband dies suddenly and his handsome nephew Frederic arrives from France to settle the estate, Rachel seizes control of her life, beginning a defiant, passionate love affair that sparks a scandal affecting her entire family, including her favourite son, Camille Pissarro, who will one day become a founder member of the Impressionists and one of historys greatest artists.

Set in a world of lush, exquisite beauty, The Marriage of Opposites shows Alice Hoffman at the height of her considerable powers. The marriage of Rachel and Frederic is an unforgettable story of an extraordinary woman and her forbidden love.

Praise for Alice Hoffmans The Dovekeepers:

Beautiful, harrowing . . . A major contribution to twenty-first-century literature Toni Morrison

Hoffman reminds us with every sentence that words have the power to transport us to alternate worlds, to heal a broken heart, and to tie us irrevocably to the people we love Jodi Picoult

A book as monumental as its subject, magical, moving . . . A genuine masterpiece Daily Mail

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