...know Anne Boleyn's in for a beheading.
So, when I came across a respectable trade, I was refreshed to see that there were no well-known characters in the plot. No kings, no queens, and no whores with three nipples. Instead this is a tale of the slave trade, told primarily from the point of view of Frances Scott. When her father dies and she is left penniless and reliant on the charity of her Aunt and Uncle, Frances decides to seek a living as a ... ...an interview with Josiah Cole, a Bristol merchant with his heart set on big things, she is offered a position of a different kind...that of a wife. Trading her social contacts for Josiah's protection, she moves in with Josiah and his bitter sister in a stinking river warehouse, Frances has come down in the world. But with her husband’s ambitious plans for the import of slaves, she will not be down and out for long.
Forced by her ambitious husband ...
Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful
Advantages: A powerful exploration of love, sexuality and betrayal. Disadvantages: A bit hard going.
As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann isn’t my usual sort of book. I’m not really sure why I chose it ~ maybe it was the intriguing write up it got in one of our Book Mags in the library, or maybe it was because I wanted a bit of challenge. Whatever the reason, I’m very glad I did.
~~~THE AUTHOR.
Maria McCann was born in 1956 in Liverpool. She went to the University of Durham to study English and then did an MA in writing at Glamorgan University. ... ...in Somerset in 1988. As Meat Loves Salt is her first novel.
~~~THE PLOT.
As Meat Loves Salt is set in the 1640s, during the time of the English Civil War. The narrator of
