![]() It smelled luscious: no sawdust now, but a glorious fragrance of cocoa and candied violets and some other spicy scent, like the cigars that Papa used to smoke after dinner." Furthermore there is also something sacred about the experience - "Now, a reverent hush hung in the air, and she found herself almost tiptoeing…gazing around her at the immense chandeliers, the glittering looking-glasses, the glossy walnut panelling. ![]() When the heroine Sophie first steps on to the shop floor she feels like she is "stepping inside a chocolate box". This entrancing Edwardian mystery is set in the exotic, sensuous and opulent world of a Department store which draws the reader in with enticing sights, sounds and smells from the start. Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2016: Younger Fiction Longlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2016 ![]()
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