Bitter Chocolate

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?

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A sexy, sophisticated page-turner EVE
A blockbuster with brains ... the ultimate guilty pleasure BELLA
So engrossing, you'll want to read through your lunchbreak NEW WOMAN
Sheer indulgence DAILY EXPRESS
Lokko captures the bustle of east end London and luxury lifestyle in America while following three separate girls on the look out for love, marriage and a sense of belonging to someone, somewhere THE BIG ISSUE
A bittersweet story of love, pain and three feisty women WOMAN
Sumptuous HOT STARS
A glorious search for love, marriage and a sense of belonging EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS
sumptuous HOT STARS
A glorious search for love, marriage and a sense of belonging EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS

After various careers from cocktail waitress to kibbutz worker, Lesley Lokko trained as an architect, but always dreamt of writing. Six novels later, Lesley now splits her time between Johannesburg and London.

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?

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