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#Giveaway AN APPETITE FOR VIOLETS by MARTINE BAILEY @MartineBailey @StMartinsPress

January 21, 2015 By Mary 20 Comments

#Giveaway AN APPETITE FOR VIOLETS by MARTINE BAILEY @MartineBailey @StMartinsPressPublished by Macmillan Pages: 399

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. A writing desk lies open and you cannot help but read a paper. Then you find something, something you should not have found.

Irrepressible Biddy Leigh, under-cook at the forbidding Mawton Hall, can’t wait to settle down with her sweetheart and set up her own tavern. But when her elderly master marries the young, enigmatic Lady Carinna, Biddy is unwittingly swept up into a world of scheming, secrets, and lies.

Forced to accompany her new mistress to Italy, Biddy takes with her an old household book of recipes, The Cook’s Jewel, in which she records her observations. When she finds herself embroiled in a murderous conspiracy, Biddy realises that the secrets she holds could be the key to her survival – or her downfall . . .

AN APPETITE FOR VIOLETS is an utterly compelling story of food, obsession and mystery, introducing a brilliant new voice in historical fiction

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martine baileyAbout the Author

Inspired by eighteenth-century household books of recipes, An Appetite for Violets allowed Martine to indulge in her obsessions with food, history and travel. As an amateur cook, Martine won the Merchant Gourmet Recipe Challenge and was a former UK Dessert Champion, cooking at Le Meurice in Paris. In pursuit of authenticity she has studied with food historian Ivan Day and experienced Georgian food and fashion at firsthand with an historic re-enactment society.

Martine lives in Cheshire, England after recently returning from a 20-month stay in New Zealand. She is married with one son and is currently writing a second historical novel for Hodder & Stoughton.

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Comments

  1. holdenj says

    January 21, 2015 at 6:55 pm

    I like cookies, and one of my favorite desserts is the ones thst use a cookie as a base for ice cream etc.

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  2. Shelley Munro says

    January 21, 2015 at 7:24 pm

    I love the sound of this book. Off to check it out at Amazon. 🙂

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  3. Alexia R says

    January 21, 2015 at 8:05 pm

    Chocolate Brownies 🙂

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  4. Renee-chan says

    January 22, 2015 at 1:48 am

    I love brownie so much!! *-* Escpecially with cold vanilia ice cream on the hot brownie! :3

    Reply
  5. Bridget hopper says

    January 22, 2015 at 7:04 am

    White chocolate raspberry cheesecake

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  6. anne says

    January 22, 2015 at 7:36 am

    My favorite dessert is Lemon Meringue Pie.

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  7. Niki driscoll says

    January 22, 2015 at 11:37 am

    My favorite desert is ice cream.

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  8. Nancy says

    January 22, 2015 at 11:48 am

    Cheesecake with strawberry topping.

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  9. Wendy Newcomb says

    January 22, 2015 at 1:11 pm

    I think I would pick Pecan Pie, something I rarely get.

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  10. Rhonda says

    January 22, 2015 at 1:34 pm

    Chocolate cream pie yum.

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  11. Nancy Luebke says

    January 22, 2015 at 1:58 pm

    It’s a tossup between chocolate no bakes and cherry pie.

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  12. crystal allen says

    January 22, 2015 at 2:08 pm

    If it has sugar in it, I probably like it, otherwise I’d say dark chocolate brownies. 🙂

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  13. Anita Yancey says

    January 22, 2015 at 3:25 pm

    My favorite is apple pie with vanilla ice cream on top. Thanks for having the giveaway.

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  14. Sandra K says

    January 23, 2015 at 4:14 pm

    Hmmm. Maybe a cream puff.

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  15. Amy says

    January 24, 2015 at 8:19 am

    I love blueberry muffins.

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  16. Katherine Riley says

    January 26, 2015 at 1:23 am

    I love chocolate cake with 7 minute frosting.

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  17. Deanne Patterson says

    January 26, 2015 at 7:20 am

    This book sounds wonderful. I look forward to reading it. My favorite desset is pumpkin pie with whipped cream.

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  18. Kelly W. says

    January 26, 2015 at 11:21 am

    I love homemade oatmeal cookies that my grandma used to make!!!!

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  19. Raquel M. says

    January 30, 2015 at 4:26 am

    I love cheesecake and fudge brownies.

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  20. Sea Cho says

    January 30, 2015 at 12:58 pm

    Dessert I love to eat? Ice cream cake. Honestly, anything that isn’t carrot cake or red velvet is usually good with me.

    Reply

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