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Praise for Book of Love "*****" Dove Grey Reader "I loved it" Random Jottings blog "A shoe-in for the Orange Prize" Adele Geras "Should have won the Booker" Susan Hill 
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Sarah Bower's Book of Love 
About Book of LoveIn 1492, when Ferdinand and Isabella expel the Jews from Spain, six year old Esther Sarfati finds herself travelling to Rome to join her father, a successful banker who has helped his fellow Spaniard, Rodrigo Borgia, finance his bid for the Papacy. Nine years later, as Pope Alexander VI, he repays the favour by offering Esther a place in the household of his daughter, Lucrezia, who is about to marry Alfonso d'Este, heir to the Duchy of Ferrara. Against her own better judgement, but in accordance with her father's wishes for her future, Esther converts to Christianity and enters Lucrezia's service as lady-in-waiting. Flattered by Lucrezia's favour, seduced by the friendship of her cousin, Angela Borgia and swept off her feet by Lucrezia's glamorous and dangerous brother, Cesare, she is drawn into a web of intrigue and deceit which will test her heart to its utmost and burden her with secrets she must carry to her grave. Set against the glittering background of the court of Ferrara in the early sixteenth century, this is the heart-breaking story of what happens to an innocent abroad in the world of the Borgias. Key sales points Sarah Bower's debut novel, The Needle In the Blood, has sold nearly 10,000 copies in the UK since its publication in May 2007 * Entered for the Orange and Orange New Writers * Entered for the Booker * Due to the success of Needle in the Blood, author won an agent contract with Curtis Brown. Hooray - Snowbooks got the rights to her next book, The Book of Love * Beloved of bloggers who are eagerly awaiting this book - they loved Needle In the Blood - for instance Dove Grey Reader reviewed it twice, she loved it so much, and gave it a coveted 5 stars out of 5. * Adele Geras and Susan Hill said Needle should have won the Booker - the former in the Guardian, the latter on her website. * Proofs available and first chapter booklets to be circulated |
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