In her bestselling and critically acclaimed novel Chocolat, Joanne Harris told a lush story of the conflicts between pleasure and repression. Now she delivers her most complex and sophisticated work yet, an unforgettable tale of mothers and daughters, of the past and the present, of resisting and succumbing -- an …
À Lansquenet, petit village perdu quelque part en France, mis à part les sempiternels sermons du sombre Reynaud, le curé intégriste de la paroisse, il ne se passe jamais rien. Alors, quand Vianne Rocher et sa fille Anouk décident de s'y installer pour ouvrir une chocolaterie, c'est tout le village qui se met à jaser. …
For generations, privileged young men have attended St. Oswald's Grammar School for Boys, groomed for success by the likes of Roy Straitley, the eccentric Classics teacher who has been a fixture there for more than thirty years. This year, however, the wind of unwelcome change is blowing, and Straitley is finally, …
Joanne Harris, bestselling author of Chocolat, presents her most accomplished novel yet -- an intoxicating concoction that blends theology and reason, deception and masquerade, with a dash of whimsical humor and a soupçon of sensuality.Britanny, 1610. Juliette, a one-time actress and rope dancer, is forced to seek …