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Five Quarters Of The Orange

  • Imprint: Black Swan

  • ISBN: 9780552998833

  • Length: 432  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 27mm x 127mm

  • Weight: 294g

  • RRP: £8.99

Five Quarters Of The Orange

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, plies her culinary trade at the crêperie - and lets her memory play strange games.

As her nephew attempts to exploit the growing success of the country recipes Framboise has inherited from her mother, a woman remembered with contempt by the villagers, memories of a disturbed childhood during the German Occupation flood back, and expose a past full of betrayal, blackmail and lies.

  • Imprint: Black Swan

  • ISBN: 9780552998833

  • Length: 432  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 27mm x 127mm

  • Weight: 294g

  • RRP: £8.99

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  • "Her strongest writing yet: as tangy and sometimes bitter as <i>Chocolat</i> was smooth"

    Independent

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About the Author

Joanne Harris

Joanne Harris (Author) 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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