Louvre Museum – The Armchair Anglophile

20th Century

Stealing the Mona Lisa

EditorBeeAugust 22, 2011

Apparently, in the days before alarms and video surveillance, you could get away with quite a lot. Like, say, stealing the Mona Lisa right off the wall in the Louvre,...

A modern-day retelling of Jane Austen's Persuasion, set in the sizzling, cutthroat world of the Edinburgh restaurant scene.

Susan and Chris had an intense relationship, and an equally intense breakup. Now, ten years later, the two of them find themselves in charge of competing restaurants and fighting the attraction they both feel. Will it be a second chance at love, or will a movie star, a poisonous gossip blogger, and meddling family members ruin things once and for all?

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