Books by Joanne Harris
Chocolat also opens with an itinerant mother and her daughter arriving in a straitlaced community and giving it a good shake – this time with a hint of magic and a feelgood slant. Vianne and Anouk Rocher pitch up in a pretty French mountain village and open a chocolaterie during Lent – luring in the villagers during their time of fasting and repentance, and attracting the ire of the puritanical local priest. Harris’s book was the basis of the hit 2001 Hollywood adaptation, which starred Juliet Binoche as the temptress Vianne.
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