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Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris

ISBN: 9780060958022
Release Date: 01 Jun 2002
Average rating: (read by 45 members)

Categories: Modern fiction

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 extraordinary work of fiction lined with darkness and fierce joy.When Framboise Simon returns to a small village on the banks of the Loire, the locals do not recognize her as the daughter of the infamous woman they hold responsible for a tragedy during the German occupation years ago. But the past and present are inextricably entwined, particularly in a scrapbook of recipes and memories that Framboise has inherited from her mother. And soon Framboise will realize that the journal also contains the key to the tragedy that indelibly marked that summer of her ninth year....

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	gossy1985 Full Review
	Rated it 6 months ago

A beautifully written, evocative, sumptuous book. This is probably my favourite Joanne Harris book. The story deals with family, community and the plot springs around a tragedy which underpins everything. The rich, sensual descriptions of the sights,...

	katedavies
	Rated it 7 months ago

a story i read as a teenager -it registered with me during a time of teenage angst

	bookmad
	Rated it 8 months ago

I read this book awhile ago now and will need to go back to it to refresh my memory. The one thing I do seem to remeber about it was that it was a bit "dark" in places.

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