PRAISE
‘A sensual delight … elegantly written and unashamed fun’
JOANNE HARRIS
‘As intoxicating and addictive as the substance it describes. The novel is a triumph of inspired imagination’
Financial Times
‘A work of engaging simplicity which reads well, has plenty of light and shade and never patronises the reader. The potent appeal of chocolate … is vividly captured. Mouth-watering descriptions of food litter the text’
Sunday Telegraph
‘His treasure of a book, fantastic and delicious and dreamily erotic by turns, will transmute your yearning for the bitter water into a craving from which you will, quite happily, never recover’
SIMON WINCHESTER, author of The Surgeon of Crowthorne
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
The Discovery of Chocolate
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