TY  - BOOK
AU  - McIntosh,Fiona
TI  - The Sugar Palace
SN  - 9781761047015
U1  - A823.4 23/eng/20231012
PY  - 2023///
CY  - [Southbank, Vic.]
PB  - Michael Joseph
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
KW  - Confectioners
KW  - Australia
KW  - History
KW  - 1901-1945
KW  - Sydney (N.S.W.)
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Romance fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Historical fiction
N1  - Includes book club notes
N2  - Under the clamour of the Sydney Harbour Bridge being built nearby, Grace Fairweather is working in her father's grocery shop in The Rocks when she begins making her own confectionery. Her colourful creations of toffees, lollies and chocolates soon become crowd favourites, and Grace begins to dream of one day opening her own sweetshop. When the roguish but irresistible Londoner Alfie Sweeting comes to work for the Fairweathers, his ambition for her success thrills her - so much so that she begins to question her engagement to Norman. Perhaps the 'safe' option in life isn't the right thing for her after all. Alfie encourages her to open not just a sweetshop, but a delightful destination for young and old - a sugar palace! With Grace's natural business acumen and Alfie's creative sales skills, it seems like they could be the perfect pairing - in work and in love - but when Alfie's criminal past catches up with him, both their lives come under threat and Grace is forced to make the most difficult decision of all
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