PANDORA

Corgi, London, 2003, 1^st pr thus.  ISBN 0-552-14850-4.  MMPB, 751 pages including Acknowledgements.  Light edge wear, reading creases on spine; diagonal crease at upper front, some rubs; binding sound with a lean.  Interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages; signed on title page by author.  ‘Hanging in a turret of their lovely Cotswold house, Pandora witnessed Raymond’s tempestuous wife Galena both entertaining a string of lovers, and giving birth to her four children:  Jupiter, Alizarin, Jonathan and superbrat Sienna.  Then an exquisite stranger rolls up, claiming to be a long-lost daughter of the family, setting the three Belvedon brothers at each other’s throats.  Accompanying her is her fatally glamorous boyfriend, whose very different agenda includes an unhealthy interest in the Raphael.  During a fireworks party, the painting is stolen.  The hunt to retrieve it takes the reader on a thrilling journey to Vienna, Geneva, Paris, New York and London.’ (from rear wrap)