The Pearl Thief by Fiona McIntosh
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The Pearl Thief
- By: Fiona McIntosh
- Narrated by: Katy Sobey
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction
Publisher's Summary
Severine Kassel is asked by the Louvre in 1963 to aid the British Museum with curating its antique jewellery, her speciality. Her London colleagues find her distant and mysterious, her cool beauty the topic of conversations around its quiet halls. No one could imagine that she is a desperately damaged woman, hiding her trauma behind her chic French image.
It is only when some dramatic Byzantine pearls are loaned to the museum that Severine's poise is dashed and the tightly controlled life she's built around herself is shattered. Her shocking revelation of their provenance sets off a frenzied hunt for Nazi Ruda Mayek.
Mossad's interest is triggered, and one of its most skilled agents comes out of retirement to join the hunt, while the one person who can help her - the solicitor handling the pearls - is bound by client confidentiality. As Severine follows Mayek's trail, there is still one lifelong secret for her to reveal - and one for her to discover.
From the snowy woodlands outside Prague to the Tuilieries of Paris and the heather-covered moors of Yorkshire comes a confronting and heart-stopping novel that explores whether love and hope can ever overpower atrocity in a time of war and hate.
©2018 Fiona McIntosh (P)2018 Penguin Random House Australia
Anonymous User
Great book
Loved it. Well woven history and fiction.
Loved the narrator’s voice change for each character.
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Kindle Customer
lovely
another amazing novel by Fiona. I just couldn’t stop listening when I started. I love the true history intertwined with the fictional tale
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