

The international sensation that UK booksellers are calling this generations War and Peace.At the start of the twentieth century on the edge of the Russian Empire a family prospers thanks to a magical recipe for hot chocolate that bewitches its drinkers. But this chocolate carries a bitter — some say cursed — aftertaste … Tumbling through the years across vast expanseThe international sensation that UK booksellers are calling this generations War and Peace.At the start of the twentieth century on the edge of the Russian Empire a family prospers thanks to a magical recipe for hot chocolate that bewitches its drinkers. But this chocolate carries a bitter — some say cursed — aftertaste … Tumbling through the years across vast expanses of longing and loss we witness generation after generation of this remarkable family as they struggle and thrive divide and reunite and live and die in the red century.(less)