The penny heart
By: Martine Bailey
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9781444769852; 9781444769876
Subjects: Social life and customs; Manners and customs; Revenge; Fiction
Description: A historical novel of suspense, seasoned with recipes and remedies, THE PENNY HEART draws on age-old themes of cooking, trickery and revenge. Sentenced to death for a simple confidence trick, Mary Jebb escapes the gallows ... but her reprieve is harsh: seven years in the unforgiving penal colony of Botany Bay. Yet Mary is determined not to be forgotten, sending two pennies, engraved with a promise, to the two men who sealed her fate. Timid artist Grace Moore jumps at the opportunity to marry handsome gentleman Michael Croxon - happy if only to get away from her drunken father. But when Grace takes on a new cook, the two penny heart love tokens reveal she is tied to a world she didn't know existed ... A world of deceit, double-crossing, revenge and murder.
Notes: Includes traditional recipes.