A tantalising novel about the ultimate luxury and sin- that dark mistress, chocolate.
Joanne Harris is the internationally renowned and award-winning
author of over twenty novels. Her Whitbread-shortlisted novel
Chocolat was adapted to the screen, starring Juliette Binoche and
Johnny Depp. She is the author of several other bestsellers,
including The Lollipop Shoes, Peaches for Monsieur Le Cure and The
Strawberry Thief. She has also written acclaimed novels in such
diverse genres as fantasy based on Norse myth (Runemarks,
Runelight, The Gospel of Loki), and the Malbry cycle of dark
psychological thrillers (Gentlemen & Players, Blueeyedboy, and
Different Class).
Born in Barnsley, of an English father and a French mother, she
spent fifteen years as a teacher before (somewhat reluctantly)
becoming a full-time writer. In 2013, she was awarded an MBE, and
in 2022 an OBE. She lives in Yorkshire, plays bass and flute in a
band first formed when she was sixteen, and works in a shed in her
garden. She is an honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College,
Cambridge, and served for four years as Chair of the Society of
Authors. She also has a form of synaesthesia which enables her to
smell colours. Red, she says, smells of chocolate.
Mouthwatering ... a feelgood book of the first order ... your
senses are left reeling. Read it
*Observer*
Is this the best book ever written? Truly excellent ... Harris's
achievement is not only in her story, in her insight and humour and
the wonderful picture of small-town life in rural France, but also
in her writing
*Literary Review*
Sensuous and thought-provoking ... subtle and brilliant
*Daily Telegraph*
A celebration of pleasure, of love, of tolerance
*Observer*
An addictive read ... haunting, obsessive and just a little nutty,
like a freshly made praline
*Elisabeth Luard, author of "Family Life"*
Mouthwatering ... a feelgood book of the first order ... your
senses are left reeling. Read it * Observer *
Is this the best book ever written? Truly excellent ... Harris's
achievement is not only in her story, in her insight and humour and
the wonderful picture of small-town life in rural France, but also
in her writing * Literary Review *
Sensuous and thought-provoking ... subtle and brilliant * Daily
Telegraph *
A celebration of pleasure, of love, of tolerance * Observer *
An addictive read ... haunting, obsessive and just a little nutty,
like a freshly made praline -- Elisabeth Luard, author of "Family
Life"
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