The Peacock emporium
Moyes, Jojo
Genre:
In the sixties
Athene Forster was the most glamorous girl of her generation. Nicknamed the Last Deb
she was also beautiful
spoiled
and out of control. When she agreed to marry the gorgeous young heir Douglas Fairley-Hulme
her parents breathed a sigh of relief. But within two years
rumors had begun to circulate about Athene's affair with a young salesman. Thirty-five years later
Suzanna Peacock is struggling with her notorious mother's legacy. The only place Suzanna finds comfort is in The Peacock Emporium
the beautiful coffee bar and shop she opens that soon enchants her little town. There she makes perhaps the first real friends of her life
including Alejandro
a male midwife
escaping his own ghosts in Argentina. The specter of her mother still haunts Suzanna. But only by confronting both her family and her innermost self will she finally reckon with the past--and discover that the key to her history
and her happiness
may have been in front of her all along.
Target Readership: