{"product_id":"sweetest-thing-book-fiona-shaw-9781844080458","title":"The Sweetest Thing","description":"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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49623240999185,"sku":"GOR001018961","price":7.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49643881955601,"sku":"GOR003811746","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49657339642129,"sku":"GOR001019040","price":7.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1844080455.jpg?v=1751445796","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-de\/products\/sweetest-thing-buch-fiona-shaw-9781844080458","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}