Five Quarters Of The Orange by Joanne Harris
Beyond the main street of Les Laveuses runs the Loire, smooth and brown as a sunning snake - but hiding a deadly undertow beneath its moving surface. This is where Framboise, a secretive widow named after a raspberry liqueur, plies her culinary trade at the creperie - and lets memory play strange games. Into this world comes the threat of revelation as Framboise's nephew - a profiteering Parisian - attempts to exploit the growing success of the country recipes she has inherited from her mother, a woman remembered with contempt by the villagers of Les Laveuses. As the split blood of a tragic wartime childhood flows again, exposure beckons for Framboise, the widow with an invented past. Joanne Harris has looked behind the drawn shutters of occupied France to illuminate the pain, delight and loss of a life changed for ever by the uncertainties and betrayals of war.
Joanne Harris is the author of the Whitbread-shortlisted Chocolat (made into a major film starring Juliette Binoche), Blackberry Wine, Five Quarters of the Orange, Coastliners, Holy Fools, Jigs & Reels, Sleep Pale Sister, Gentlemen & Players and, with Fran Warde, The French Kitchen- A Cookbook and The French Market- More Recipes from a French Kitchen. She lives in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, with her husband and daughter.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780385601696 |
| ISBN 10 | 0385601697 |
| Title | Five Quarters Of The Orange |
| Author | Joanne Harris |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Year published | 2001-04-02 |
| Number of pages | 432 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Parker Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2002, Short-listed for WH Smith Book Awards (Fiction) 2002, Short-listed for Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2002, Short-listed for WH Smith Book Awards: Fiction 2002 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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