Blockbuster of a book. Value for money with this read. Epic novel with about 15 hours of reading at normal speed.

17th century Spain, France, London. The difference between the upper noble classes and the servants of the day in the big houses. This book brings them all to light in an informative way.

A book for the holidays, really lets you get your teeth into it, along with a cookery lesson.

Thank you Netgalley for letting me read this book.

Found it difficult to continue read about 20% and it just wasn't holding me so for me unfortunately one star

Im not sure if it was the translation or just the style of writing in this book that made me find it really hard to get into. I enjoyed the social history and would have liked more about the cuisine but a lot of the time it felt like a romantic novel written for teenagers and I found my self skimming big chunks of it.
Thank you to netgalley and Head of Zeus for an advance copy of this book