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Chocolat

  • Imprint: Black Swan

  • ISBN: 9780552998482

  • Length: 384  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 127mm x 127mm

  • Weight: 262g

  • RRP: £8.99

Chocolat

  • (Chocolat 1)

'A feelgood book of the first order. One to curl up with... Read it' OBSERVER

THE ENCHANTING BESTSELLER THAT CELEBRATES KINDNESS, COURAGE AND CHOCOLATE

In the small French village of Lansquenet, nothing much has changed in a hundred years. Then an exotic stranger, Vianne Rocher, blows in on the changing wind with her young daughter, and opens a chocolate boutique directly opposite the church. Soon the villagers cannot keep away, for Vianne can divine their most hidden desires.

But it’s the beginning of Lent, the season of abstinence, and Father Reynaud denounces her as a serious moral danger to his flock. Perhaps even a witch. If Vianne's chocolaterie is to survive, it will take kindness, courage and a little bit of magic...

Chocolat was Joanne Harris's first book about Vianne Rocher, and was turned into the Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. The story of Vianne and her daughters was continued in Lollipop Shoes, Peaches for Monsieur le Cure, and now in The Strawberry Thief.

'Sensuous and thought-provoking... subtle and brilliant' DAILY TELEGRAPH

  • Imprint: Black Swan

  • ISBN: 9780552998482

  • Length: 384  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 127mm x 127mm

  • Weight: 262g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • 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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About the Author

Joanne Harris

Joanne Harris’s Whitbread-shortlisted Chocolat was made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. She is the author of many other bestselling novels, including Lollipop Shoes and Peaches for Monsieur le Curé, both also featuring Vianne Rocher, as is her new novel 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. 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.

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