Agent: Catherine Drayton, Inkwell Management. An exciting debut novel set in the exotic, bustling streets of coastal Chinaa woman whose life is restored when she opens a small caf and gains the courage to trust what’s in her heart. This debut author dishes up a fair amount of culinary metaphor, but Macau, rich in potential, is absent the women in this cafe could be anywhere.

Join our mailing list PreK-12 Teachers & Librarians. The denouement is predictable, almost maudlin, but satisfying. The Color of Tea by Hannah Tunnicliffe - An exciting debut novel set in the exotic, bustling streets of coastal Chinaa woman whose life is restored when she. SEASON OF SALT AND HONEY: Combining the practicality of a cook book (the novel includes nine recipes for mouthwatering Italian dishes) with fiction. Making macarons, the women bond, so that when tragedy strikes they’re able to withstand what threatens them. The color of tea by Hannah Tunnicliffe, 2011, Pan Macmillan Australia edition, in English. She hires a secretive, hardworking Filipino girl named Rilla to help her navigate the language barrier, and a brusque Chinese girl named Gigi, good with dishonest suppliers, who Grace discovers is pregnant. She acquires a regular clientele, first old Yok Lan, and then the beautiful expat Marjory. A career in Human Resources and Career Coaching has been put on the backburner to pursue her dream of becoming a writer. Pete, who opens casinos in exotic places, escapes sorrow in his exhausting job Grace wallows in grief at home until she remembers seeing a property for sale “with ovens.” She decides to turn the once smoky Portuguese restaurant into Lillian’s, a cafe serving tea, coffee, macarons. Grace and her husband Pete are devastated when they learn they can’t have a child. A sweet, airy novel for women and about women: a barren wife, stuck in Macau, China, salvages her sanity by opening a French cafe.