Bournville: A Novel

A tender and wickedly funny portrait of England told through four generations of one family.

Bournville is a quiet village in the heart of England famous for its chocolate. For eleven-year-old Mary, it is the center of her world, the place where most of her family's friends and neighbors have worked for decades and where the streets smell faintly of chocolate.

During the next three-quarters of a century, Mary will have children and grandchildren and great-children. She will live through the ...