Book Blast: The Cook's Temptation by Joyce Wayne

HF Virtual Book Tours invites you to join Joyce Wayne as she tours the blogosphere for The Cook’s Temptation! Find the information below to enter a giveaway to win an eBook of The Cook’s Temptation or a $10 Amazon Gift Card!

Publication Date: February 1, 2014
Mosaic Press
Formats: Ebook, Paperback

Joyce Wayne brings to life the complexities of Victorian life, first in County Devon and then in London’s East End. The ‘big picture’ is about one woman’s life, class conflict, religious intolerance, suspicion and betrayal. The central figure is Cordelia, a strong-minded Jewish woman who is caught between her desire to be true to herself and her need to be accepted by English society. Cordelia Tilley is the daughter of a Jewish mother and an Anglican father. Her mother has groomed her for a life in English society while her father, a tough publican, has shown no tolerance for his wife’s social climbing or the conceits of their perspicacious daughter. Cordelia’s mother dies from typhoid fever, she tries to run the family ‘s establishment, she falls prey to a local industrialist, she gives birth to a son, she is tormented by her husband and his family. Finally, she is rescued by suffragette friends and sets off to start a new life in London. The Cook’s Temptation is about a woman who is unpredictable, both strong and weak willed, both kind and heinous, victim and criminal. It is a genuine Victorian saga, full of detail, twists and turns, memorable scenes, full of drama and pathos.

 

Praise for The Cook’s Temptation

“Joyce Wayne’s debut novel, The Cook’s Temptation, has the stately bearing of a nineteenth century novel – the mercilessness of Thomas Hardy, the black allegory of Nathaniel Hawthorne, the tense marriages of George Eliot. It is a story of how people become what you blame them for being.” – Ian Williams, poet and fiction writer, short listed for the 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize

 

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About the Author

Joyce Wayne has an MA in English literature, has taught journalism at Sheridan College, Oakville, Ontario, for twenty-five years, and lives in Toronto, Ontario. She was a winner of the Diaspora Dialogues contest for fiction and the Fiona Mee Award for literary journalism. She is the co writer of the documentary film So Far From Home (2010), a film about refugee journalists persecuted for their political views, and various of her other works have been published in Parchment, Golden Horseshoe Anthology, Canadian Voices, and TOK6.


For more information please visit Joyce Wayne’s website. You can also connect with her on Facebook, Twitter, and Goodreads. She is happy to participate in Books Clubs by phone and Skype.

 

Virtual Tour & Book Blast Schedule

Monday, June 9
Review at 100 Pages a Day

Tuesday, June 10 Book Blast at Bab’s Book Bistro
Guest Post & Giveaway at Passages to the Past

Wednesday, June 11 Book Blast at History From a Woman’s Perspective

Thursday, June 12 Book Blast at WTF Are You Reading?
Book Blast at I’d So Rather be Reading

Friday, June 13 Book Blast at Literary Chanteuse

Saturday, June 14 Book Blast at A Bookish Affair
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Book Blast at Just One More Chapter

Sunday, June 15 Book Blast at Historical Fiction Obsession

Monday, June 16 Review at Book Nerd

Tuesday, June 17 Review at Seaside Book Corner
Book Blast at Lily Pond Reads

Wednesday, June 18 Interview at From the TBR Pile
Book Blast at Historical Tapestry

Thursday, June 19 Review at Flashlight Commentary
Book Blast at Kelsey’s Book Corner

Friday, June 20 Interview at Flashlight Commentary
Book Blast at The Mad Reviewer

Saturday, June 21 Book Blast at Bibliophilic Book Blog

Sunday, June 22 Book Blast at Book Lovers Paradise
 Book Blast at Historical Fiction Connection

Monday, June 23 Book Blast at History Undressed
Book Blast at CelticLady’s Reviews

Tuesday, June 24 Book Blast at Mina’s Bookshelf
Book Blast at Peeking Between the Pages

Wednesday, June 25 Review at Svetlana’s Reads and Views
Book Blast at Broken Teepee

Thursday, June 26 Review at Caroline Wilson Writes

Friday, June 27 Review at Historical Novel Review
Interview at Oh, For the Hook of a Book

 

Giveaway

Up for grabs are 3 eBooks of The Cook’s Temptation and 3 $10 Amazon Gift Cards! To enter, please complete the Rafflecopter giveaway HERE. Giveaway is open to US & Canada residents only.

Giveaway ends at 11:59pm on June 27th. You must be 18 or older to enter.

Winner will be chosen via Rafflecopter on June 28th and notified via email.

Winner have 48 hours to claim prize or new winner is chosen.