BITTER CHOCOLATE Lesley Lokko / NEW 1st Ed PB 2008
Large new softcover, cover and pages are unmarked. 468 pages, 23 x 15 cms, Orion Publishing Group, first edition 2008. The photograph forms part of the description. ISBN-13: 9780752872971 Laure, seventeen, beautiful and already abandoned twice in her young life. Once by the glamorous mother she can barely remember, a woman who brought shame on the St Lazare family name and fled to America; and then again by a handsome soldier who left her pregnant and alone, facing the wrath of her grandmoth