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'Enchanting' -- Woman's Journal on BLACKBERRY WINE 'If Joanne Harris didn't exist, someone would have to invent her' -- Sunday Express 'Mouthwatering...a celebration of pleasure, of love, of tolerance. Read it.' -- Observer on CHOCOLAT 'Sensuous and thought provoking...subtle and brilliant.' -- Daily Telegraph on CHOCOLAT
Jay Mackintosh is a 37-year-old writer with Pinot Noir indigo eyes whose success rests on the publication of one book, Three Summers with Jackapple Joe. Disillusioned with the literary scene and bored with his relationship with Kerry, he is imbibing wine at his London home one day when he sees in a brochure a photograph of a derelict farmhouse, located in Lansquenet, near Marseilles, which reminds him of a picture once shown to him by his old friend Jackapple Joe. The property is for sale, so Jay promptly buys it and moves there, cherishing dreams of peace and solitude. This story of Jay's life in 1999 is interspersed with flashbacks to his teenage years in the north of England in the '70s, particularly his friendship with the eccentric yet worldly Jackapple Joe, an older character who talks to and tickles his plants in order to encourage them to grow, makes his own wine from blackberries and other fruits, and dreams of possessing his own chateau in France. One such flashback reveals that Jay's escape from London to France is not unprecedented - in 1977 he flees from school in order to visit Jackapple Joe, and when he first enters the empty house in Lansquenet 22 years later a mysterious sound convinces him that Joe is present, yet unseen. Written by Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat, the primary theme is the loss of the magic of youth as represented by the dream of a return to a rural idyll. Light, amusing and sad, the book drips with nostalgia for a boyhood filled with uncertainty and the desire for adventure and excitement. This audiobook version is beautifully read by Sir Derek Jacobi, enabling him to revel in a variety of accents. (Kirkus UK)
Observer on CHOCOLAT
'Mouthwatering...a celebration of pleasure, of love, of tolerance. Read it.'
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'Enchanting' -- Woman's Journal on BLACKBERRY WINE 'If Joanne Harris didn't exist, someone would have to invent her' -- Sunday Express 'Mouthwatering...a celebration of pleasure, of love, of tolerance. Read it.' -- Observer on CHOCOLAT 'Sensuous and thought provoking...subtle and brilliant.' -- Daily Telegraph on CHOCOLAT
Jay Mackintosh is a 37-year-old writer with Pinot Noir indigo eyes whose success rests on the publication of one book, Three Summers with Jackapple Joe. Disillusioned with the literary scene and bored with his relationship with Kerry, he is imbibing wine at his London home one day when he sees in a brochure a photograph of a derelict farmhouse, located in Lansquenet, near Marseilles, which reminds him of a picture once shown to him by his old friend Jackapple Joe. The property is for sale, so Jay promptly buys it and moves there, cherishing dreams of peace and solitude. This story of Jay's life in 1999 is interspersed with flashbacks to his teenage years in the north of England in the '70s, particularly his friendship with the eccentric yet worldly Jackapple Joe, an older character who talks to and tickles his plants in order to encourage them to grow, makes his own wine from blackberries and other fruits, and dreams of possessing his own chateau in France. One such flashback reveals that Jay's escape from London to France is not unprecedented - in 1977 he flees from school in order to visit Jackapple Joe, and when he first enters the empty house in Lansquenet 22 years later a mysterious sound convinces him that Joe is present, yet unseen. Written by Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat, the primary theme is the loss of the magic of youth as represented by the dream of a return to a rural idyll. Light, amusing and sad, the book drips with nostalgia for a boyhood filled with uncertainty and the desire for adventure and excitement. This audiobook version is beautifully read by Sir Derek Jacobi, enabling him to revel in a variety of accents. (Kirkus UK)
Observer on CHOCOLAT
'Mouthwatering...a celebration of pleasure, of love, of tolerance. Read it.'
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