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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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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I like cookies, and one of my favorite desserts is the ones thst use a cookie as a base for ice cream etc.
I love the sound of this book. Off to check it out at Amazon. 🙂
Chocolate Brownies 🙂
I love brownie so much!! *-* Escpecially with cold vanilia ice cream on the hot brownie! :3
White chocolate raspberry cheesecake
My favorite dessert is Lemon Meringue Pie.
My favorite desert is ice cream.
Cheesecake with strawberry topping.
I think I would pick Pecan Pie, something I rarely get.
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Chocolate cream pie yum.
It’s a tossup between chocolate no bakes and cherry pie.
If it has sugar in it, I probably like it, otherwise I’d say dark chocolate brownies. 🙂
My favorite is apple pie with vanilla ice cream on top. Thanks for having the giveaway.
Hmmm. Maybe a cream puff.
I love blueberry muffins.
I love chocolate cake with 7 minute frosting.
This book sounds wonderful. I look forward to reading it. My favorite desset is pumpkin pie with whipped cream.
I love homemade oatmeal cookies that my grandma used to make!!!!
I love cheesecake and fudge brownies.
Dessert I love to eat? Ice cream cake. Honestly, anything that isn’t carrot cake or red velvet is usually good with me.