The London Forgery
Eljarbo, Heidi
Come back to the nostalgia of the groovy seventies and the classical Georgian era of the eighteenth century.
1973. A mysterious note is delivered to the National Gallery in London, and the director immediately calls Norwegian art historian Fabiola Bennett. One of her favorite portraits is in trouble. Fabiola hops on the first plane and meets up with her vibrant side-kick Pippa Yates and the ever-loyal Detective Inspector Cary Green from New Scotland Yard. But she is not naïve enough to think untangling the purpose and meaning of the mysterious note will be as simple as a walk in Hyde Park. These things never are.
1750. Newly married Robert and Frances Andrews, members of the landed gentry of Suffolk, England, hire young and talented Thomas Gainsborough to paint their wedding portrait. Little do they know the gifted artist portrays their personalities exactly how he perceives them, and the artistic symbolism is not as flattering as they’d hoped for. Even the looming clouds in the dis