![]() ![]() Her previous novel, Chocolat, was a delicious confection, melding together bewitchment and romance in a chocolatier, in the sleepy French village of Lansquenet. Joanne Harris weaves spells of "everyday magic" once again in Blackberry Wine. ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Chocolat, the major motion picture directed by Lasse Hallström ( The Cider House Rules), is scheduled for release in December 2000 and stars Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp, Dame Judy Dench, Alfred Molina, and Lena Olin. Joanne Harris's last novel, Chocolat, was both a dazzling literary success and a commercial triumph. Between them, there seems to be a mysterious chemistry. ![]() There, a ghost from his past waits to confront him, and his new neighbour, the reclusive Marise - haunted, lovely and dangerous - hides a terrible secret behind her closed shutters. Under the strange effects of a bottle of Joe's '75 Special, Jay decides to purchase a derelict yet promising château in Lansquenet-sous-Tannes. His only happiness comes from dreaming about the golden summers of his boyhood that he spent in the company of an eccentric vintner who was the inspiration of Jay's debut novel, but who one day mysteriously vanished. Fourteen years have passed since his first novel, Jackapple Joe, won the Prix Goncourt. Jay Mackintosh is a 37-year-old has-been writer from London. From the author of Chocolat, an intoxicating fairy tale of alchemy and love where wine is the magic elixir. ![]()
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