Apparently a golden pig year comes around only once every sixty, and it brings good fortune. We arrived in Macau at the end of the Year of the Golden Pig. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. With each mug of coffee brewed, each cup of tea steeped and macaron baked, Grace comes to learn that strength can be gleaned from the unlikeliest of places.Ī delicious, melt-in-your-mouth novel featuring the sweet pleasures of French pastries and the exotic scents and sights of China, The Color of Tea is a scrumptious story of love, friendship and renewal. Grace realizes it’s now or never to lay old ghosts to rest and to begin to trust herself. But when her marriage reaches a crisis, secrets Grace thought she had buried long ago rise to the surface. There, among fellow expatriates and locals alike, Grace carves out a new definition of home and family. Grace opens a café where she serves tea, coffee, and macarons-the delectable, delicate French cookies colored like precious stones-to the women of Macau. She resolves to do something bold, something her impetuous mother would do, and she turns to what she loves: baking and the pleasure of afternoon tea. As she is forced to confront the devastating news of her infertility, Grace’s marriage is fraying and her dreams of family have been shattered.

The end of hope and the beginning of it too.Īfter moving with her husband to the tiny, bustling island of Macau, Grace Miller finds herself a stranger in a foreign land-a lone redhead towering above the crowd on the busy Chinese streets. Macau: the bulbous nose of China, a peninsula and two islands strung together like a three-bead necklace.

An exciting debut novel set in the exotic, bustling streets of coastal China-a woman whose life is restored when she opens a small café and gains the courage to trust what’s in her heart.

The Color of Tea by Hannah Tunnicliffe