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Five Quarters of the Orange

Five Quarters of the Orange

Author(s): Joanne Harris

Location(s): Loire Valley (Vallée de la Loire)

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 1940s and 1960s

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, plies her culinary trade at the crêperie – and lets her memory play strange games.

As her nephew attempts to exploit the growing success of the country recipes Framboise has inherited from her mother, a woman remembered with contempt by the villagers, memories of a disturbed childhood during the German Occupation flood back, and expose a past full of betrayal, blackmail and lies.

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