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| The Sweetest Thing | 
 enlarge | Author: Fiona Shaw
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £12.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 838080
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.2 x 1.7
ISBN: 1860499872
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781860499876
ASIN: 1860499872
Publication Date: January 16, 2003
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: All in very good condition. We post daily by Royal Mail,from Uk location, Wrapped in bubble and inserted in jiffy bag ;Priority Airmail used Worldwide on International orders
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 Extremely well-written and thoroughly enjoyable June 3, 2003
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Has similarities to Sara Waters' 'Fingersmith' but without the lesbianism. Well-written and well-researched, one is very much transported back into Victorian life with all its gritty realities. The characters are rounded and fully realised, if somewhat perplexing at times as to their motivation. I rather feared from the cover that it would turn out to be a somewhat frothy 'women's novel'but it wasn't at all - I should like to read more by Fiona Shaw.
 A must for lovers of literary fiction, history and chocolate January 20, 2003
11 out of 15 found this review helpful
If any of the following are true of you - love reading intelligent novels which transport you to another time, are interested in early photography or how the Victorians treated the mentally ill, have ever visited York, like chocolate - then you must read this novel. All of these elements and more are present in this terrific tale of love, ambition and betrayal, set against the backdrop of a Quaker-run cocoa factory in York in the late 1800s. Delicious...
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