''Seducing Ingrid Bergman'' is a 2012 novel by

Chris Greenhalgh Chris Greenhalgh is a British novelist, screenwriter, teacher and poet. Life Chris Greenhalgh was born in 1963 and brought up in Manchester. After studying English Literature at university, he lived and worked for five years in Italy and Ath ...

. It dramatises the real-life affair between the actress

Ingrid Bergman Ingrid Bergman (29 August 191529 August 1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films, television movies, and plays.Obituary '' Variety'', 1 September 1982. With a career spanning five decades, she is ofte ...

and the war photographer

Robert Capa Robert Capa (born Endre Ernő Friedmann; October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954) was a Hungarian-American war photography, war photographer and Photojournalism, photojournalist as well as the companion and professional partner of photographer Gerda T ...

Plot summary

The novel opens in 1945. France is recently liberated by Allied Forces. Robert Capa has photographed the Normandy Landings and been parachuted into Germany. Now he is kicking his heels in Paris, waiting for something to happen. As a dare, he slips a note under the door of Ingrid Bergman's room at the Ritz, inviting her for a drink. The flirtation escalates quickly into a passionate affair. Ingrid has a husband, child and career back in Hollywood. Capa can't escape from his traumatic memories of the war or his addiction to the adrenaline high that he only gets from his work. Against his better judgement, Capa follows Ingrid to California, but both still have painful choices to make.

Film adaptation

On 5 June 2013 it was announced that film rights to the novel had been acquired by

YRF Entertainment Yash Raj Films (YRF) is an Indian film production and distribution company founded by veteran filmmaker Yash Chopra in 1970. It mainly produces and distributes Hindi and Punjabi films. The company has grown to be one of the largest film studios ...

, to be adapted for the screen by

Arash Amel Arash Amel ( fa, آرش عامل) (born 1976) is a Welsh-Iranian screenwriter and film producer. Early life Amel was born in Aberystwyth, Wales in 1976, but spent several years in Iran before emigrating to the UK as a child. He subsequently m ...

. The film is to be directed by

James Mangold James Allen Mangold (born December 16, 1963) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for the films '' Cop Land'' (1997), ''Girl, Interrupted'' (1999), '' Walk the Line'' (2005), '' 3:10 to Yuma'' (2007), '' The Wolverine'' (2013) and '' Logan' ...

Editions

English

* UK paperback : Viking, Penguin Books Ltd., 4 October 2012 ()

References

2012 British novels British historical novels Novels set in Paris Novels set in the 1940s Penguin Books books {{2010s-hist-novel-stub