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Joanne Harris: Five Quarters of the Orange

Beyond 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...
ISBN: 9780552998833
Author: Joanne Harris
Page: 363
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 2002
Format: Book
Publisher: BLACK SWAN
Language: English

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...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.

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