Publisher: Harper Collins 2001. ISBN: 0060958022. Softcover (8.5" tall), 307 pages, in very good condition - very light wear to edges & corners, slight soiling outer edge of pages, interior clean & unmarked.
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 creperie, and lets her memory play strange games. Into this world come the threat of revelation as Framboises 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. Harris is an acute observer of the lush French countryside, and her descriptions of it are a delight. A luscious feast of a book. Her strongest writing yet: as tangy and sometimes bitter as Chocolat was smoothly Independent.
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