The Russian Chocolate Maker's Lover

When her fiancé is killed Elizabeth MacDonald has a psychological breakdown, but fate contrives a meeting with Vladimir, a Russian Chocolate Maker come to London to seek funding. A visit to St Petersburg follows where Elizabeth becomes embroiled in a struggle for control of the Boraya Chocolate Company. From the 'blokadniki' who lived through the terrible Siege of Leningrad, she finds the strength to confront her own demons, and so find love and professional success.

With a rich cast of characters this novel of professional and emotional development set around the contested privatisation of a Russian chocolate company in a snowy winter in the mid-1990s weaves together a rich tapestry of history, romance, treachery and sacrifice against the background of a Russia emerging into the capitalist world.