ISBN: 9780380815920
Release Date: 01 May 2001
Average rating:   (read by 37 members)

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Categories: Modern fiction

As a boy, writer Jay Mackintosh spent three golden summers in the ramshackle home of "Jackapple Joe" Cox. A lonely child, he found solace in Old Joe's simple wisdom and folk charms. The magic was lost, however, when Joe disappeared without warning one fall.

Years later, Jay's life is stalled with regret and ennui. His bestselling novel, "Jackapple Joe, " was published ten years earlier and he has written nothing since. Impulsively, he decides to leave his urban life in London and, sight unseen, purchases a farmhouse in the remote French village of Lansquenet. There, in that strange and yet strangely familiar place, Jay hopes to re-create the magic of those golden childhood summers. And while the spirit of Joe is calling to him, it is actually a similarly haunted, reclusive woman who will ultimately help Jay find himself again.

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dawny
Rated it   2 months ago
better than chocolat..the friendship between the boy and the old man is beautifully portrayed

Anne
Rated it   7 months ago
my first Joanne Harris book... and still my favourite!

fuschia
Rated it   1 years ago
I started this book because I really enjoyed the film "Chocolat" which is another of her books. However, I have never read anything by this author before so I did not know I would get on with it. The first chapter nearly put me off, I did not...

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