The Sweetest Thing by Fiona Shaw

The Sweetest Thing by Fiona Shaw

When Harriet, a working-class girl who, with her friend Mary has left her coastal job of collecting and gutting fish, stops on a bridge in her newly adopted home in York, she is approached by an upper-class gentleman. Samuel is a Quaker, a good soul, and a man interested in the new science of photography. He also collects photographs of working-class girls in their working clothes. Samuel invites the girls to come to his friend's studio. While Mary is almost instantly lost to the art of photography, Harriet, a sturdier sort, goes on to get a job in the Quaker-owned Wetherby's Chocolate Factory. She soon catches the eye of a young clerk who is one of the favourites of the owners and through him discovers the deadly rivalry between the chocolate-makers. Samuel is also taken with the young Harriet, though because of class, he watches her from afar, until his sister - 'mad Grace' locked away in an asylum - becomes part of their mutual story. Set in York in the early 1900s, The Sweetest Thing is a true Victorian novel with a large cast and wonderfully intriguing subplots, set at a moment of great social change.

The Sweetest Thing captures all the mouth-watering sweetness of desire (for freedom, for cocoa, for a face in a photograph), as well as the dusty grit it leaves on the lipsEmma Donoghue If you are a fan of Sarah Waters or Tracy Chevalier then you will love this. The Sweetest Thing is historical, literary fiction at its very best OBSERVER One of Waterstone's 'Faces of the Future', a new writer who promises to be a huge name West Sussex OBSERVER richly researched, warmly characterised and admirably humane DAILY MAIL

Fiona Shaw lives in York. She is the author of the extrarordinary memoir of post-natal depression, Out of Me, also from Virago..

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ISBN 13	9781844080458
ISBN 10	1844080455
Titel	The Sweetest Thing
Autor	Fiona Shaw
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Little, Brown Book Group
Erscheinungsjahr	2004-05-06
Seitenanzahl	448
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