An Appetite for Violets

  An imprint of St. Martin’s Press.

  AN APPETITE FOR VIOLETS. Copyright © 2014 by Martine Bailey. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

  Trade card of Renzo Cellini © 2013 by Martin Bailey, courtesy of the National Trust, www.waddesdon.org.uk, Accession nos: 3686.1.89.182, 3686.2.14.32, 3686.2.75.190, 3686.3.4.11, 3686.4.7.13

  Trade card of The Queen of England Hotel © 2013 by Martin Bailey, courtesy of the National Trust, www.waddesdon.org.uk, Accession nos: 3686.2.14.32, 3686.2.44.109, 3686.2.75.190, 3686.3.27.67, 3686.4.37.62

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  First published in Great Britain by Hodder & Stoughton, an Hachette UK company

  First U.S. Edition: January 2015

  eISBN 9781466860711

  First eBook edition: November 2014