The House of Cray

Pamela Hill, one of the most gifted and popular historical novelists today, now brings us a powerful saga of two families whose lives, loves and ambitions intertwine in the international world of art dealing. From the Italy of Garibaldi to the advent of the First World War, we follow three generations of English Crays and Italian Bondones. There's the magnificent Enrico Bondone, founder of an art firm that must keep up with changing fashions and styles; Isotta, his daughter, who marries the ambitious Marcus; their son, the second Marcus, an irresistible womanizer; Dorothea, his beautiful and imperious lover; Marcus' son, Jack, who with his fragile wife Harriet must confront the firm's declining fortunes in an age that no longer demands its wares. Throughout it all is the passion of both families - a passion in which murder and piety mingle, fortunes are made and lost, and loves, both illicit and legitimate, are without limit. The House of Cray sweeps the reader across Europe and through history, a captivating, vivid, and fast-paced story written by the one woman who could tell it so well.


Genre: Historical