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The Sweetest Thing

When Harriet, a working-class girl who, with her friend Mary has left her coastal job of collecting and gutting fish, stops on a bridge in her newly adopted home in York, she is approached by an upper-class gentleman. Samuel is a Quaker, a good soul, and a man interested in the new science of photography. He also collects photographs of working-class girls in their working clothes. Samuel invites the girls to come to his friend's studio. While Mary is almost instantly lost to the art of photography, Harriet, a sturdier sort, goes on to get a job in the Quaker-owned Wetherby's Chocolate Factory. She soon catches the eye of a young clerk who is one of the favourites of the owners and through him discovers the deadly rivalry between the chocolate-makers.
Samuel is also taken with the young Harriet, though because of class, he watches her from afar, until his sister - `mad Grace' locked away in an asylum - becomes part of their mutual story.
Set in York in the early 1900s, The Sweetest Thing is a true Victorian novel with a large cast and wonderfully intriguing subplots, set at a moment of great social change.

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : JAN 16, 2003
  • Imprint : Virago
  • Page Extent : 448
  • Binding : HB
  • ISBN : 9781860499876
  • Price : INR 899
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