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Imprint: Black Swan
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Published: 01/01/2002
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ISBN: 9780552998833
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Length: 432 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 27mm x 127mm
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Weight: 294g
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RRP: £9.99
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.
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Imprint: Black Swan
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Published: 01/01/2002
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ISBN: 9780552998833
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Length: 432 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 27mm x 127mm
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Weight: 294g
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RRP: £9.99
Reviews
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"Her strongest writing yet: as tangy and sometimes bitter as Chocolat was smooth"
Independent
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"Outstanding ... beautifully written"
Daily Mail
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"Joanne Harris a naturally sensuous writer, but her latest book has a dark core...Her descriptive and narrative talents are put to a profounder use...This gripping tale is bound to be made into a film. It's as vivid a journey through human cruelty and kindness as I've read this year"
Daily Telegraph
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"Harris indulges her love of rich and mouthwatering descriptive passages, appealing to the senses ... Thoroughly enjoyable"
Observer
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"Just as she did in Chocolat, Harris indulges her love of rich and mouth-watering descriptive passages, appealing to the senses with seductively foreign names, and evoking the textures and smells of food. These descriptions are suffused with a child's wide-eyed wonder that lends the story a magical quality, almost like a folk tale or a children's story. Even having the Occupation as a backdrop, Harris sets out to tell a story that proves, like her previous books, to be thoroughly enjoyable..."
Guardian
