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Five quarters of the orange
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Five quarters of the orange

By Joanne Harris

Synopsis

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 at the crêperie and lets her 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.
Magical realism
Soft cover
Gently used

Condition: Good

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R35.00