| Main centres: | 1-3 business days |
| Regional areas: | 3-4 business days |
| Remote areas: | 3-5 business days |
1763. As candles flicker in the falling dusk along Pall Mall, Filipo di Vecellio, fￃﾃￂﾪted portrait painter from Florence, and his beautiful wife Angelica entertain the cream of London's art world in their fashionable London home, with Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough among the guests, and William Hogarth a disapproving observer. Little is known of Filipo's past or his family - except in the shadows sits his sister, Francesca, who watches, and listens, and waits.
For beneath the opulence and success, the house in Pall Mall conceals a swarm of secrets, corruption and lies. Filipo's ambition has meant numerous, terrible sacrifices for Francesca, but Filipo is not the only painter, nor the only one capable of fraud. And as the great wild city of trade and business expands its grasping, avid tentacles, a climax erupts involving love and passion - and the quiet sister who has waited so long...
