Showing In the Age of Love and Chocolate by Gabrielle Zevin

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-09-17 Pages: 304 Language: English Publisher: Macmillan Childrens Books All These Things I've Done. the first novel in the Birthright series. introduced us to timeless heroine Anya Balanchine. a plucky sixteen year old with the heart of a girl and the responsibilities of a grown woman. Now eighteen. life has been more bitter than sweet for Anya. She has lost her parents and her grandmother. and has spent the better part of her high school years in trouble with the law. Perhaps hardest of all. her decision to open a nightclub with her old nemesis Charles Delacroix has cost Anya her relationship with Win.Still. it is Anya's nature to soldier on. She puts the loss of Win behind her and focuses on her work. Against the odds. the nightclub becomes an enormous success. and Anya feels like she is on her way and that nothing will ever go wrong for her again...