Bitter Chocolate
$93.02
- 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…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: | 128mm x 197mm x 37mm |
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About The Author
Lesley Lokko
After various careers from cocktail waitress to kibbutz worker, Lesley Lokko trained as an architect, but always dreamt of writing. Six novels later, Lesley now splits her time between Johannesburg and London.
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