TY  - BOOK
AU  - Capella,Anthony
TI  - The Various Flavours of Coffee
SN  - 9780751539431
AV  - PS3603.A64 .C37 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - London
PB  - Sphere
KW  - Enslaved persons Ethiopia
KW  - FictionLove stories
N2  - It is 1895. Robert Wallis, would-be poet, bohemian and impoverished dandy, accepts a commission from coffee merchant Samuel Pinker to categorise the different tastes of coffee - and encounters Pinker s free-thinking daughters, Philomenia, Ada and Emily. As romance blossoms with Emily, Robert realises that the Muse and marriage may not be incompatible after all. Sent to Abyssinia to make his fortune in the coffee trade, he becomes obsessed with a negro slave girl, Fikre. He decides to use the money he has saved to buy her from her owner - a decision that will change not only his own life, but the lives of the three Pinker sisters ..."--Publisher description

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