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Thomas Dunne
January 2015
On Sale: January 13, 2015
Featuring: Biddy Leigh
399 pages
ISBN: 1466860715
EAN: 9781466860711
Kindle: B00L73JQ68
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Historical | Mystery Historical
“That’s how it is for us servants. No one pays you much
heed; mostly you're invisible as furniture. Yet you
overhear
a conversation here, and add a little gossip there. Then
you
find something, something you should not have found.” Irrepressible Biddy Leigh, under-cook at forbidding Mawton
Hall, only wants to marry her childhood sweetheart and set
up her own tavern. But when her elderly master marries
young
Lady Carinna, Biddy is unwittingly swept up in a world of
scheming, secrets, and lies. Forced to accompany her new
mistress to Italy, she documents her adventures and
culinary
discoveries in an old household book of recipes, The
Cook’s
Jewel. Biddy grows intrigued by her fellow travelers, but
her secretive and unconventional mistress is the most
intriguing of all. In London, Biddy finds herself attracted to her mistress’s
younger brother. In France, she discovers her mistress’s
dark secret. At last in Italy, Biddy becomes embroiled in
a
murderous conspiracy, knowing the secrets she holds could
be
a key to a better life, or her downfall. Inspired by eighteenth-century household books of recipes
and set at the time of the invention of the first
restaurants, An Appetite for Violets is a literary feast
for
lovers of historical fiction. Like Jo Baker’s Longbourn,
it
opens a window into the fascinating lives of servants,
while
also delivering a suspenseful tale of obsession and
betrayal.
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