Five Quarters Of The Orange Read By Joanne Harris
| Title | : | Five Quarters Of The Orange |
| Author | : | Joanne Harris |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Page | : | 432 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0385601697 |
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 crperie and lets memory play strange games.Into this world comes the threat of revelation as Framboise s nephew a 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 cr perie 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 spilt 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
about Author
Joanne Harris is an Anglo French author, whose books include fourteen novels, two cookbooks and many short stories Her work is extremely diverse, covering aspects of magic realism, suspense, historical fiction, mythology and fantasy She has also written a DR WHO novella for the BBC, has scripted guest episodes for the game ZOMBIES, RUN , and is currently engaged in a number of musical theatre pr Joanne Harris is an Anglo French author, whose books include fourteen novels, two cookbooks and many short stories Her work is extremely diverse, covering aspects of magic realism, suspense, historical fiction, mythology and fantasy She has also written a DR WHO novella for the BBC, has scripted guest episodes for the game ZOMBIES, RUN , and is currently engaged in a number of musical theatre projects as well as developing an original drama for television.In 2000, her 1999 novel CHOCOLAT was adapted to the screen, starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp She is an honorary Fellow of St Catharine s College, Cambridge, and in 2013 was awarded an MBE by the Queen.Her hobbies are listed in Who s Who as mooching, lounging, strutting, strumming, priest baiting and quiet subversion She also spends too much time on Twitter plays flute and bass guitar in a band first formed when she was 16 and works from a shed in her garden at her home in Yorkshire 
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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 Thi
432 pagesJoanne Harris
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