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The
2003 Award
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Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
Nominated by:
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Publisher of Nominated Editions: Doubleday ISBN 0385601697 William Morrow & Co 006198133 |
| the complete A-Z listing of nominated authors. |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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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 crêperie - 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. Five Quarters of the Orange looks behind the drawn shutters of occupied France to illuminate the pain, delight and loss of a life changed forever by the uncertainties and betrayals of war. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Joanne Harris is the author of international best-sellers Chocolat, shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize, Blackberry Wine and Coastliners, and, with Fran Warde, The French Kitchen: A Cookbook. She lives in Yorkshire, England with her husband and children. |
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