If you are after a light 'chicklit' read, with lots about chocolate, then this is the book for you! (Fans of Livia Day's 'Cafe la femme' series should definitely try it.)
Christmas Livingstone, owner of 'The Chocolate Apothecary' store at Evandale, tempers chocolate and makes her own handmade delicacies. As a sideline she acts as fairy godmother to fulfill others' greatest wishes.
Her life seems complete until Lincoln van Luc, a tall, dishevelled botanist, seeks her help to bring his story of a rare cacao plant from Ecuador to life. Can she do this as well as undertake the scholarship to France she has won to study with world-renowned chocolatier, Maitre Le Coutre, and cope with the antics of her extended family?
Citation: Moon, Josephine The chocolate promise Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 2015.
ISBN: 978 1 74331 800 3
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Josephine Moon's website
This was an extremely entertaining book by Livia Day, and is listed as the first in the 'Cafe la femme' series. In the true spirit of a culinary crime novel there are dessert recipes at the end for adventurous readers to try.
It is a cross between chicklit and murder mystery, with main character Tabitha Darling trying to run a hipster cafe in Hobart and simultaneously finding herself involved in a string of crimes across Hobart.
Citation: Day, Livia A trifle dead : a cafe la femme novel [n.p.]: Deadlines, 2013.
ISBN: 9780987216298
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Livia Day's website. Livia Day also writes fantasy novels as Tansy Rayner Roberts
