The Pearl Thief Ursula Doyle and family members

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A lament for the fate of a certain kind of man and a certain kind of manhood

And it's not long before she catches the eye of a sinister triad godfather

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the best-selling author of Stiff turns her outrageous curiosity and insight on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex

The Pearl Thief Ursula Doyle and family membersSeverine Kassel is asked by the Louvre in 1963 to aid the British Museum with curating its antique jewellery, her specialty. Her London colleagues find her distant and mysterious; her cool beauty the topic of conversations around its quiet halls. No one could imagine that she is a desperately damaged woman, hiding her trauma behind her chic, French image. It is only when some dramatic Byzantine pearls are loaned to the Museum that Severines poise is