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Annie McDee, only after the disintegration of her long-term marriage and captured in a dead-end job, is searching for a present-day on her behalf unsuitable enthusiast in a neglected secondhand shop. Within the jumble of rubbish and tack, a grimy painting attracts her eye. Going out of the store with the picture after spending her meagre personal savings, she prepares an elaborate dinner for two - only to be stood up, the surprise gathering dust on her mantelpiece. But every painting has a tale - and if it could speak, what would it reveal? For Annie has stumbled across The Improbability of Love, a lost masterpiece by Antoine Watteau, one of the most influential French painters of the 18th century. Soon Annie is drawn unwillingly in to the skill world and sees herself pursued by a host of interested gatherings that could do anything to have her picture. For an exiled Russian oligarch, an avaricious Sheika, a needy auctioneer, an unscrupulous dealer and many others, the painting symbolises their biggest hopes and doubts. In her search for the painting's true identification, Annie will reveal the darkest secrets of European record - and in doing this she will learn more about herself, checking to the possibility of falling in love again.Irreverent, witty and sharply special, The Improbability of Love explores the confusion and turmoil of life and the complexities of love, loss and harmed - exposing the lows to which human being dynamics can stoop and the heights to which the heart can soar.
