Book description
In 'Eau de Toilette', in her boudoir Madame, a famous
eighteenth-century French beauty of dubious hygiene habits, awaits, en
déshabillée, the hot water for her six-monthly bath. Will it help to
return Monseigneur de Rochefort, her favourite admirer, back to her side?
In 'Fish', Melissa and Jack are on their honeymoon in Naples, but
things aren't going well between them. He longs to explore the
sensuous riches of Neapolitan food, but she is a lactose-intolerant,
wheat-allergic vegetarian, and has objections to every restaurant.
Jack finally entices her to Casa Rosa, a small fish restaurant down by
the harbour, but there the battle between food and love will really begin...
In 'Never Give a Sucker...', Reggie Noakes was a vampire for
seventy-five years, but he doesn't fit in any more, ousted by market
forces. You're just the wrong kind of vampire, they tell him. He never
liked blood that much anyway, it's a bugger trying to get any when
you're fat and balding and no virgin would look at you twice.
Part of the Storycuts series, these short stories were previously
published in the collection Jigs & Reels.
Joanne Harris is the author of the Whitbread-shortlisted
Chocolat
(made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny
Depp) and seven other bestselling novels. Her hobbies are listed in
Who's Who
as 'mooching, lounging, strutting, strumming, priest-baiting and quiet
subversion'. She plays bass guitar in a band first formed when she was
16, is currently studying Old Norse, and lives with her husband and
daughter in Yorkshire, about 15 miles from the place she was born.
