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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Dovekeepers and The Museum of Extraordinary Things: a forbidden love account arranged on the tropical island of St. Thomas about the incredible woman who offered beginning to painter Camille Pissarro - the daddy of impressionism. Growing through to idyllic St. Thomas in the first 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel's mother, a pillar of their small refugee community of Jews who escaped the Inquisition, hasn't forgiven her little girl for being a difficult girl who won't live by the guidelines. Growing up, Rachel's salvation is their maid Adelle's perception in her talents and her profound, lifelong friendship with Jestine, Adelle's little girl. But Rachel's life is not her own. She is committed off to a widower with three children to save lots of her father's business. When her hubby dies all of the sudden and his good-looking, much more youthful nephew, Frédérick, happens from France to stay the property, Rachel seizes her own life account, start a defiant, passionate romance that sparks a scandal that affects most of her family, including her favorite son, who will become one of the biggest music artists of France. Building on the triumphs of The Dovekeepers and The Museum of Extraordinary Things, set in an environment of almost unimaginable beauty, The Relationship of Opposites showcases the cherished, best-selling Alice Hoffman at the elevation of her substantial powers. Once overlooked to record, the matrimony of Rachel and Frédérick is a tale that is really as remarkable as it is impressive.
