{"product_id":"an-appetite-for-violets-a-novel-9781250056917","title":"An Appetite for Violets: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Thats how it is for us servants. No one pays you much heed; mostly youre invisible as furniture. Yet you overhear a conversation here  and add a little gossip there. Then you find something  something you should not have found.\"  Irrepressible Biddy Leigh  under-cook at forbidding Mawton Hall  only wants to marry her childhood sweetheart and set up her own tavern. But when her elderly master marries young Lady Carinna  Biddy is unwittingly swept up in a world of scheming  secrets  and lies. Forced to accompany her new mistress to Italy  she documents her adventures and culinary discoveries in an old household book of recipes  The Cooks Jewel. Biddy grows intrigued by her fellow travelers  but her secretive and unconventional mistress is the most intriguing of all. In London  Biddy finds herself attracted to her mistresss younger brother. In France  she discovers her mistresss dark secret. At last in Italy  Biddy becomes embroiled in a murderous conspiracy  knowing the secrets she holds could be a key to a better life  or her downfall. Inspired by eighteenth-century household books of recipes and set at the time of the invention of the first restaurants  An Appetite for Violets is a literary feast for lovers of historical fiction. Martine Baileys novel opens a window into the fascinating lives of servants  while also delivering a suspenseful tale of obsession and betrayal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67616057065525,"sku":"ByrdShop_1250056918","price":58.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781250056917.jpg?v=1791202988","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/an-appetite-for-violets-a-novel-9781250056917","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}