The Resource An appetite for violets : a novel, Martine Bailey
An appetite for violets : a novel, Martine Bailey
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- Summary
- ""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. Then you find something, something you should not have found." Irrepressible Biddy Leigh, under-cook at the foreboding Mawton Hall, only wants to marry her childhood sweetheart and set up her own tavern. But when her elderly master marries the young Lady Carinna, Biddy is unwittingly swept up in a world of scheming, secrets, and lies. Forced to accompany her new mistress to Italy, she documents her adventures and culinary discoveries in an old household book of recipes, The Cook's Jewel. Biddy grows intrigued by her fellow travelers, but her secretive and unconventional mistress is the most intriguing of all. In London Biddy finds herself attracted to her mistress's younger brother. In France she discovers her mistress's dark secret. At last in Italy, Biddy becomes embroiled in a murderous conspiracy, knowing the secrets she holds could be a key to a better life, or her downfall. Inspired by eighteenth-century household books of recipes and set at the time of the invention of the first restaurants, An Appetite for Violets is a literary feast for lovers of historical fiction. Like Jo Baker's Longbourn, it opens a window into the fascinating lives of servants, while also delivering a suspenseful tale of obsession and betrayal"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 391 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250056917
- Label
- An appetite for violets : a novel
- Title
- An appetite for violets
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Martine Bailey
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- ""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. Then you find something, something you should not have found." Irrepressible Biddy Leigh, under-cook at the foreboding Mawton Hall, only wants to marry her childhood sweetheart and set up her own tavern. But when her elderly master marries the young Lady Carinna, Biddy is unwittingly swept up in a world of scheming, secrets, and lies. Forced to accompany her new mistress to Italy, she documents her adventures and culinary discoveries in an old household book of recipes, The Cook's Jewel. Biddy grows intrigued by her fellow travelers, but her secretive and unconventional mistress is the most intriguing of all. In London Biddy finds herself attracted to her mistress's younger brother. In France she discovers her mistress's dark secret. At last in Italy, Biddy becomes embroiled in a murderous conspiracy, knowing the secrets she holds could be a key to a better life, or her downfall. Inspired by eighteenth-century household books of recipes and set at the time of the invention of the first restaurants, An Appetite for Violets is a literary feast for lovers of historical fiction. Like Jo Baker's Longbourn, it opens a window into the fascinating lives of servants, while also delivering a suspenseful tale of obsession and betrayal"--
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- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Bailey, Martine
- Dewey number
- 823/.92
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR6102.A336
- LC item number
- A67 2015
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Household employees
- Upper class
- England
- FICTION / Historical
- FICTION / Suspense
- Label
- An appetite for violets : a novel, Martine Bailey
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 2014032365
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 391 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250056917
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2014032365
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Label
- An appetite for violets : a novel, Martine Bailey
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 2014032365
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 391 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250056917
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2014032365
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
Subject
- FICTION / Historical
- FICTION / Suspense
- Historical fiction
- Household employees -- England -- Social conditions -- 18th century -- Fiction
- England -- Social life and customs -- 18th century -- Fiction
- Upper class -- England -- Social life and customs -- 18th century -- Fiction
- Suspense fiction
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