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Tulip Fever (Unabridged) [Audio Download]

by Deborah Moggach (Author), Rula Lenska (Narrator)
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  • Listening Length: 7 hours and 26 minutes
  • Program Type: Audiobook
  • Version: Unabridged
  • Publisher: AudioGO Ltd.
  • Audible Release Date: 23 Aug 2005
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B002SQ1Y36
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)

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Amsterdam in the 1630s. The painters of the time are busy: the city's inhabitants intend to guarantee their immortality with gold. Sitting for such a portrait is Sophia Sandvoort, beside her elderly husband Cornelis. They are surrounded by objects showing her husband's piety, as well as a tulip. For Cornelis has made money from the speculation on this exotic flower and its bulbs. But as the painter, Jan Van Loos, starts to capture Sophia's likeness on his canvas, so a slow passion begins to burn.
©1999 Deborah Moggach; (P)2000 BBC Audiobooks Ltd
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By FAMOUS NAME VINE™ VOICE
Format:Paperback
This novel I found had an extremely complex plot, yet wonderfully simple to follow. It's an historical narrative set in seventeenth century Holland, yet had all the suspense, thrill, and deceptions of a twentieth century love-triangle. A very atmospheric story told imaginatively and beautifully, in a way that almost makes the reader feel they are sat reading this book in a bed of tulips!
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Is that it? 20 Jan 2001
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
As a few of the other reviewers have already said I believed the hype and bought this book. What a disappointment. I have always believed the cardinal sin of reading was skipping bits, but I don't think I'd be here today if I hadn't skimmed over paragraphs in this turgid book. The narrative is plain boring and the "romance" passionless and unbelievable. I actually made it to the final page and the ending just about reached the heights of a Mills and Boon pot-boiler. Does anyone else feel that reviewers are afraid to say what a book is really like when the general consensus is that only gushing praise will do ?
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
Totally brilliant! This is a perfect book. It's literary, elegant and thought-provoking (you also learn a lot about the period) but is written in a simple, page-turning style that keeps you on the edge of your seat as much as any modern thriller. Centring on a love triangle, the plot has twists and turns that make your heart beat, as it hurtles towards an ending that is simultaneously tragic and farcical. I had thought that Deborah Moggach just wrote trashy Aga Sagas but I think she has finally found a chance to show off her true genius (maybe a few of the other ChickLit novelists should follow!). I can't wait to see what she produces next.

The novel also includes quotes and, unusually, beautiful coloured illustrations of paintings of the period, giving you a real sense of atmosphere.

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Prompt service
This was sent by a private seller and received next day. I too always send off book immediately , unlike some of the big boys who try to catch our attention on Amazon!
Published 1 month ago by Anne Bridget Bloomfield
"All painting is illusion"
There are a number of reasons why relatively few authors choose to write in the present tense. One is that it's rubbish. Read more
Published 2 months ago by The Big Pink One
A very good read
I loved this book. It is my first Deborah Moggach book and I cant wait to read the others. I thought the plot quite brilliant,also I loved the quotations before each chapter, for... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Molly Mc
Appalling rubbish
I still trying to finish this 'novel', I am not sure I ever will. I don't think I have read a worse book and that is saying something. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Catherine Howard-Dobson
tulip fever
It is not very often I read a book a second time but after a lapse I am reading it again with as much interest historically and cliff hangers leading to a cry out aloud "don't go... Read more
Published 18 months ago by karen
An exciting read that was well researched
This is a book that you can romp through. It paints a vivid picture of the period and the place, but the interweaving stories in the setting develop in a totally unexpected and... Read more
Published on 1 Mar 2010 by G. Bransby-Zachary
Touching but no depth.
It is five years since I have read a book by this author and I found it rather different from previous titles I have read by her. Read more
Published on 19 Oct 2007 by LindyLouMac
A flawed jewel
This book is like one of the paintings that fill its pages (both in the narrative, and in the colour plates displaying representative works by Rembrandt and Vermeer etc). Read more
Published on 21 Oct 2006 by HLT
Interesting historical drama
I recently read this for my local book group, and was surprised at the division the book caused. People either loved it and found it a pleasure to read or hated it. Read more
Published on 31 Oct 2003 by Rachel
Wonderful Background, Trite Story
In 1630s Amsterdam, fortunes were made and lost speculating on, of all things, tulip bulbs. In fact, comparisons are sometimes made between the Tulip Crash of 1637 and the stock... Read more
Published on 21 Dec 2002
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