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 grandmother.Amelie, caught in a world where she''s neither servant nor mistress, trapped between the St Lazare family she''s always worked for and the simmering hostility of a country on the verge of meltdown. With a past she knows nothing about and no family of her own, she yearns to find a place that can be home.Melanie, the rock star''s daughter who has everything money can buy except the love she craves. A daddy''s girl caught in a whirl of damaging relationships, testing those closest to her. In one man she sees the chance to change her life for ever, but at what price?In a story that begins in the relentless heat of a Haitian summer and sweeps through the luxury of America''s elite to the colourful chaos of East End London, BITTER CHOCOLATE is a glorious tale of the quest for love, marriage and finding a place to belong.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Orion
ISBN: 9780752879277
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 577
Tiempo de lectura:
11h 58m
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 07/07/2008
Año de edición: 2008
Plaza de edición: London
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por LESLEY LOKKO
Lesley Lokko nació en Escocia en 1964, hija de padre ghanés y madre escocesa. Estudió Arquitectura y empezó a trabajar en esa profesión hasta que la pasión por la novela comenzó a absorber todo su tiempo. Esta novela la consagró y fue elegida Libro del Mes Internacional por el principal grupo de clubes de lectores del mundo.