Bread and Chocolate

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Philippa Gregory. Bread and Chocolate

Bread and Chocolate. Philippa Gregory

Table of Contents

Bread and Chocolate

Coo-eee

The Favour

Theories About Men

Lady Emily’s Swim

The If Game

The Conjuring Trick

The Wave Machine

The Magic Box

The Garden

The Last Swan

The Bimbo

The Playmate

Going Downriver

The Other Woman

The Visitor

Catching the Bus

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Title Page

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A woman was threading through the confusion of the studio, coming towards them. Unlike everyone else she was not wearing blue denim or washed-out black. She was wearing a deep purple suit, dark as a Victoria plum. The skirt dropped, slim as a spatula, to her knees; the matching jacket swung like an archbishop’s cape as she strode towards him, her hips swaying, her paces long. Her hair was thick: dark and lustrous as liquorice; her eyes brown as chocolate, her mouth a sulky kissable bud, stained as if she had been eating blackcurrant jam.

She had come to complain to the assistant director about a slight, about an oversight, about something wrong with the layout of her table, of the preparation of the Devil’s Food Cake, but when she raised her long eyelashes and saw Brother James she paused.

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