title: The Improbability of Love: A Novel
author:  Hannah Rothschild 
description: [A] bright, champagne-fizzy satire of modern romance, human avarice, and the booming international art market. <i>Entertainment Weekly</i><br /><br />A romp, a joy, and an inspired feast of clever delights. Elizabeth Gilbert, author of <i>Eat, Pray, Love<br /><br /></i>Delightful. . . . A delicious and sometimes devastating satire of what the art world has become. <i><i>The New Republic</i><br /> <br /> </i>Impressive. . . . A treat for Anglophiles, Francophiles, art snobs, and skeptical romantics. <i>Bustle<br /><br /></i>Riveting. . . . With its colorful cast of characters and richly layered plot,<i>The Improbability of Love</i>is entertaining and suspenseful. <i>USA Today</i><br /><br /> A scintillating new novel. <i>Harpers Bazaar </i><br /><br /> A propulsive yarn. . . . Makes an impassioned case for art  as a companion to the lonely, as a restorative to those in pain. . . . Beauty inspires both passion and violence; in <i>The Improbability of Love</i>, you get a generous helping of both. <i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br /><br /> Rothschild whets our appetite for art world intrigue. <i>W</i><br /><br /> [A] romp through the art world . . . [Rothschild] understands how great art humanises . . . her writing shows brain as well as a heart. <b></b><i>The Economist</i><br /><br /> Enormously readable. . . . Energetic, clever, sometimes funny, sometimes sad and serious . . . with a romance, at least one mystery, even some thriller elements. <i>Washington Times <br /></i><br /> Deftly pings between comedic romance and biting satire of London's art world. <i>Sothebys </i><br /><br /> Totally delicious; conspicuous consumption on this scale hasnt been seen since the Eighties. <i>The Times</i>(London)<br /><br /> Clever, funny, beguiling and wholly humane. . . . Reads like a confection concocted by Anita Brookner and Judith Krantz . . . Scholarly, passionate and enticing. <i>The Independent</i> (London)<br /><br /> [A] satire worthy of the pen of Evelyn Waugh. A real crowd pleaser. <i>Daily Express</i><br /><br /> [A] pacy satire of the art world . . . Rothschild dishes up a salmagundi of unscrupulous dealers, desperate auctioneers and dodgy art experts, with a side-order of scheming Russian oligarchs. <i>Sunday Herald</i><br /><br /> Satirical, provocative, and exceedingly humorous. . . . Rothschild delights us with glimpses of London lifeas louche, chic, and freakish as early Evelyn Waugh. John Richardson, author of<i>A Life of Picasso</i><br /><br /> Hugely entertaining. . . . [A] brilliant satire on the highest echelons of the art market. Antony Beevor, author of <i>Ardennes 1944</i><br /><br /> A blistering, uninhibited and hilarious satire of the London art scene . . . The writing is sogood, interweaving a complex set of love stories of different kinds: romantic love, filial love, love of art. <i>BookPage </i><br /><br /> Dazzling. . . . An opulently detailed, suspensefully plotted, shrewdly witty novel of decadence, crimes ordinary and genocidal, and improbable love. <i>Booklist</i>(starred review)<br /><br /> Compulsively readable, immensely enjoyable . . . [An] irresistible blend of art, mystery, and intrigue along the lines of Donna Tartts<i>The Goldfinch</i>. <i>Library Journal</i>
zlib_text: HIS LOVE
  
  FIONA DAVENPORT
  
  Copyright © 2019 by Fiona Davenport
  Cover designed by Elle Christensen
  Edited by Manda Lee
  All rights reserved.
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  CONTENTS
  His Love
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 6
  Chapter 7
  Chapter 8
  Chapter 9
  Epilogue
  Epilogue
  About the Author
  
  HIS LOVE
  Billionaire Justice Kendall thought he was content with his life. Right up
  until the day he noticed that his neighbor’s daughter had become the beautiful
  woman who was meant to be his. Since then, he waited not-so patiently for
  her to turn eighteen.
  He bided his time by watching over her. When he realized that all she wanted
  was a baby of her own, he was ready to give her more than just his love.
  He’d give her everything.
  
  “B
  C H A P T 