Bitter Chocolate
$72.28
- Paperback
592 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2008
Summary
Laure, seventeen, beautiful and already abandoned twice in her young life. Once by the glamorous mother she can barely remember, a woman who brought shame on the St Lazare family name and fled to America; and then again by a handsome soldier who left her pregnant and alone, facing the wrath of her grandmother.
Amelie, caught in a world where she’s neither servant nor mistress, trapped between the St Lazare family she’s always worked for and the simmering hostility of a country on the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780752879284 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0752879286 |
| Author: | Lesley Lokko |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Orion |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 592 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2008 |
| Weight: | 404g |
| Dimensions: | 37mm x 128mm x 197mm |
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Critics Review
“sumptuous”
A sexy, sophisticated page-turner * EVE *
A blockbuster with brains … the ultimate guilty pleasure * BELLA *
So engrossing, you’ll want to read through your lunchbreak * NEW WOMAN *
Sheer indulgence * DAILY EXPRESS *
Lokko captures the bustle of east end London and luxury lifestyle in America while following three separate girls on the look out for love, marriage and a sense of belonging to someone, somewhere * THE BIG ISSUE *
A bittersweet story of love, pain and three feisty women * WOMAN *
Sumptuous * HOT STARS *
A glorious search for love, marriage and a sense of belonging * EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS *
sumptuous * HOT STARS *
A glorious search for love, marriage and a sense of belonging * EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS *
Lesley Lokko
Lesley Lokko trained as an architect after a varied career that included stints as a cocktail waitress and a kibbutz worker. She had always harbored a dream of writing, and has since published six novels. Lokko currently divides her time between Johannesburg and London.
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