Five Quarters of the Orange

Beyond the main street of Les Laveuses runs the Loire, smooth\nand brown as a sunning snake - but hiding a deadly undertow beneath\nits moving surface. This is where Framboise, a secretive widow\nnamed after a raspberry liqueur, plies her culinary trade at the\ncrêperie - and lets memory play strange games.Into this world comes\nthe threat of revelation as Framboise’s nephew – a profiteering\nParisian – attempts to exploit the growing success of the country\nrecipes she has inherited from her mother, a woman remembered with\ncontempt by the villagers of Les Laveuses. As the spilt blood of a\ntragic wartime childhood flows again, exposure beckons for\nFramboise, the widow with an invented past.Joanne Harris has looked\nbehind the drawn shutters of occupied France to illuminate the\npain, delight and loss of a life changed for ever by the\nuncertainties and betrayals of war.

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