- Title:
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The Chocolate Maker's Wife
- Written by:
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Karen Brooks
- Read by:
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Willow Nash
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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18
- Duration:
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20 hours 55 minutes
- Published:
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February 18 2019
- Available Date:
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February 18 2019
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489461322
- Genres:
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Fiction; Historical Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Karen Brooks rewrites women back into history with this breathtaking, scrupulously researched tale set in 17th century London.
When Rosamund Tomkins enters the world she is so different, with her darkling eyes and strange laughter, that the midwives believe she will lead a charmed life. But Rosamund’s life is set to be anything but enchanted.
Born into poverty, brutalised and ignored by her family, it is only when she is married off to a nobleman that her life undergoes a wondrous transformation. Clever, quick and irrepressible, Rosamund soon becomes the darling of the haut ton, and presides over her luxurious chocolate house where the rich go to be seen and indulge in their favourite pastime, drinking the sweet and heady drink to which they’ve become oddly addicted.
But in the shadows a web of conspiracy is spinning. The return of a man from the past brings Rosamund into mortal peril and up to the brink of destruction. As she fights for her life and those she loves through the ravages of the Plague and London’s Great Fire, Rosamund begins to realise she will be forced to make a choice: walk away from all she knows and has grown to love with her soul intact, or make a deal with the devil …
'Brooks has a talent for building a world that is both familiar and new ...'
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