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9781860499876The Sweetest Thing
The Sweetest Thing
Publisher Virago
Genre: General Fiction
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About the book
Harriet escapes the harsh life of a flither-lass in a Yorkshire fishing village, and goes in search of a new one.
Samuel is gentleman. He is a Quaker, a philanthropist; and he is a collector of photographs showing working-class girls inn their working clothes. He wants Harriets photograph for his collection.
Set in York in the late 1800s, The Sweetest Thing is an intimate story played out in the shadow of the cocoa factory and the asylum, the photographic studio and the Meeting House. A brilliant contemporary novel about late-Victorian life, it gives us a world of morality, espionage and cocoa, where one man believed he could make his fortune from a mouthful of sugar and a pin-up girl.
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Fiona Shaw
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