Five Quarters of the Orange
Author: Joanne Harris
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 comes the threat of revelation as Frambroise’s neph….Read More
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