Many thanks again to the next reviewer - I am spacing them out in the order I've receive them, so they are coming! And thank you all for the lovely, positive things you say.
Meeting Coty Book Review
by
Hannah Dixon
Meeting Coty is a beautiful book. I love the front cover. The writing on the back summing up the book is like poetry. The novel lives up to both of these. It is so beautifully written evoking the time it is set and all the sights and scents of perfume which feature strongly in the story. The story follows Tessa from being a young girl to when she is an adult as she dreams of working for Francois Coty who is a famous perfumer. She seems connected to him and there are scenes which couldn't possibly happen when she imagines she is with him, but this fantastical side runs through the book and it works.
There is definitely a spanish element to the book in this and in the way the author describes love, jealousy and loss. It is very powerful, imaginative and visual. The writer gives the reader space to see all the scenes she describes which I liked because she made it easy to visualise all the characters and what was going on as if you were watching the film. And I loved the love scene in the graveyard!
This book is like a work of art.
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