THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright © 2015 by Hannah Rothschild

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Ltd., Toronto. Originally published in Great Britain by Bloomsbury Publishing, London in 2015.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rothschild, Hannah, [date]

The improbability of love / Hannah Rothschild.

pages cm

ISBN 978-1-101-87414-1 (hardback) ISBN 978-1-101-87415-8 (eBook)

1. Single women—Fiction. 2. Painting—Collectors and collecting—Fiction. 3. Art dealers—Fiction. I. Title.

PR6118.O8755I47 2015

823'.92—dc23 2014047753

eBook ISBN 9781101874158

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Cover design by Mark Abrams

Cover photograph © Vanessa Skotnitsky/Arcangel

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