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New Free Chocolate Sex: A Novel [Paperback]

Keith Lowe (Author)

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March 7, 2006
Originally published in the UK, popular "lad lit" author Keith Lowe's latest book is a delicious tale of love, loss, and longing for life's sweetest rewards.

Can your sworn enemy become your romantic obsession? What lies between sugar and spice? Do personal tastes ever change? And when should we try something new? As this irresistible novel reminds us, sometimes love is the least predictable flavor in life's box of chocolates.

Matt, the brilliant young marketing director of the confectionery Trundel & Barr, loves chocolate. To him it represents sensuousness and innocent joy; it is to be adored, worshipped -- and exploited -- at every opportunity. For Samantha, however, chocolate represents something more sinister: While researching for a television documentary she learns that there is a darker side to Trundel & Barr, in the horrendous conditions of its African cocoa plantations. So Sam sets out to expose Matt -- until she finds herself locked up with him in his own chocolate factory. Stuck together, they are at risk of having a complete meltdown. But if Sam and Matt can find a way to confront their differences and learn to accept each other's passion for chocolate, their bitter situation stands a chance of turning out sweet....


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Lowe dips into the world of chocolate production in his second novel (after 2001's Tunnel Vision), a palatable romance with a titillating title and a political message. Journalist Samantha Blackwood has just returned from Africa, where she documented the plight of exploited child workers on cocoa plantations. Matt Dyson is the hotshot marketing director at the chocolate behemoth Trundel & Barr. In the thick of New York City's chocolate show, where pampered children gorge on the sweet stuff, Samantha laments the cruel irony of it all-and first locks eyes with Matt, who's nursing a few wounds himself and knows nothing of his company's shady labor practices. Comical clashes and romantic tension build as Samantha presses Matt into an interview, putting his unflappable cool to the test. When a worker strike summons each one to the company's chocolate factory in Baltimore, the duo end up locked inside for the weekend. Amid the vats of chocolate, enough sparks fly to trigger a meltdown, and a bitter situation turns decidedly sweeter-for the couple, if not for the reader. A well-meaning and impassioned attempt to enlighten us about the machinations of marketers and the dark provenance of our chocolate treats (child slaves in the Côte d'Ivoire are bought for the equivalent of $15-or "the price of about twenty-five chocolate bars") dissolves into a love story simultaneously conventional and unbelievable. Agent, Simon Trewin.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Single and devoted to his work, Matt Dyson has spent his life with chocolate, helping his father run his candy store and now serving as marketing director for a famous chocolate candy company. At the International Chocolate Fair, a lone woman resting beneath a huge chocolate sculpture arrests his gaze, but Samantha turns out to be an adversary. She has just returned from a trip to Africa to investigate the secret slave trade on cocoa plantations and is now making a documentary about the chocolate business. Animosity springs up between them; then Matt ends up becoming the fall guy for his company. Events get out of hand, and he and Samantha end up trapped in the locked factory. Like castaways on a desert island, they drop their facades, but once they're back in society, will things be any different? Life isn't "like a box of chocolates," but for Lowe's wonderful characters, life is chocolate and chocolate is life, making for a delicious saga of self-discovery. Maria Hatton
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Samantha Blackwood, Matt Dyson, West Africa, Nathan Trundel, Chocolate Trade Fair, New York, Hector Gonzalez, New Horizons, Willy Wonka, Anti-Slavery League, Chocolate Fair, New Jersey, Malcolm Butler, Sam Blackwood, Javits Convention Center, Rockefeller Center
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