Book description
It isn't often you receive a letter from the dead.
When Vianne Rocher receives a letter from beyond the grave,
she allows the wind to blow her back to the village in south-west
France where, eight years ago, she opened up a chocolate shop. But
Lansquenet is different now: women veiled in black, the scent of
spices and peppermint tea, and, on the bank of the river Tannes,
facing the church: a minaret.
Nor is it only the incomers from North Africa that have brought
change. Father Reynaud, Vianne's erstwhile adversary, is disgraced and
under threat. Could it be that Vianne is the only one who can save him now?
Joanne Harris
is the author of
Chocolat
(made into an Oscar-nominated film in 2000, with Juliette Binoche and
Johnny Depp), and ten more bestselling novels. Her work is published in
over fifty countries and has sold an estimated 30 million copies
worldwide. Born in Barnsley, of an English father and a French mother,
she studied Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge and spent fifteen
years as a teacher before (somewhat reluctantly) becoming a full-time
writer. She lives in Yorkshire with her family, plays bass in a band
first formed when she was sixteen, works in a shed in her garden, likes
musical theatre and old sci-fi, drinks rather too much caffeine, spends
far too much time online and occasionally dreams of faking her own death
and going to live in Hawaii.
