Description
London, 1896.1 Robert Wallis, bohemian and struggling poet, accepts a commission from a mysterious coffee merchant to compose a 'vocabulary of coffees' that can capture their elusive flavours. Intoxicated by their heady aromas, and the even headier presence of Pinker's free-thinking daughter Emily, Robert falls hopelessly in love, while Emily too discovers that you cannot interrogate one set of senses without awakening others.
Then Robert is dispatched to Africa in search of the source of the world's finest coffee. There he meets Fikre, the chattel of a powerful merchant, who serves him in the traditional Abyssinian coffee ceremony. And when Fikre dares to slip Robert a single coffee bean, everything he thought he knew - about business, about passion, about himself-starts to unravel...
A sweeping, sensual love story that twists and turns across two decades and three continents, The Various Flavours of Coffee is an exotic and unforgettable feast for the senses from the bestselling author of The Food of Love and The Wedding Officer.
Anthony Capella is once again on top of his game. An eclectic brew of such diverse elements as the coffee trade, women's suffrage, foreign travel and slavery, and is spiced up with a dollop of exotic romance
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ISBN:9780751539431
