Five quarters of an orange

From her mother, Frambuaz inherited the album with culinary recipes - deliberately, given that her brother Cassis got a farm, and her elder sister Ren -Claude is a wine cellar with all the contents. But the whole focus is that in the fields of the album, next to recipes for different dishes and herbal inactive, mother wrote down her thoughts and recognition regarding some events of her life - in a word, conducted a kind of diary. And in this diary, Frambuaz is trying to find answers to the gloomy puzzles of the past.
Harris created a multilayer plot, strewn with delightful descriptions of French books and revealing the shabby effect of war on a fragile family device.
Publishers Weekly
From her books - so far the strongest: acute, with bitterness ...
Independent
If Joanne Harris did not exist, she should be invented - she is a long -awaited antidote from modern obsession with abstinence. Not for her the dubious joys of elegant and expensive mineral water or rocket-salad without