Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach

In 17th-century Amsterdam, a young, unhappy merchant’s wife begins an illicit affair with the penniless painter hired to paint her portrait; desperate to escape their circumstances, the lovers become caught up in the city’s feverish tulip-bulb speculation, a web of greed, deceit and social hypocrisy that leads their scheme into betrayal and tragic consequences.

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