THE EUROPEANS

This tremendously attractive, ambitious, dizzying book has been received to huge acclaim in the media, receiving glowing reviews fro m a host of readers, from William Boyd to Karl Ove Knausgaard and Antonia Fraser. At the heart of this sweeping narrative of the bir th of a 19th century pan-European culture, is the love triangle of three colourful characters: Pauline Viardot, a great singer, Ivan Turgenev, a great writer, and Pauline's husband Louis, a great connoisseur.