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| Original Title: | Blackberry Wine |
| ISBN: | 0380815923 (ISBN13: 9780380815920) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Jay Mackintosh, Joseph "Jackapple Joe" Cox, Caro Clairmont, Toinette, Josephine Bonnet, Marise d'Api, Roux, Mireille Faizande |
| Setting: | Lansquenet-sous-Tannes,1999(France) London, England,1999(United Kingdom) Pog Hill,1975(United Kingdom) |
Joanne Harris
Paperback | Pages: 368 pages Rating: 3.8 | 13034 Users | 839 Reviews
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Jay Mackintosh is trapped by memory in the old familiar landscape of his childhood, more enticing than the present, and to which he longs to return. A bottle of home-brewed wine left to him by a long vanished friend seems to provide both the key to an old mystery and a doorway into another world. As the unusual properties of the strange brew takes effect, Jay escapes to a derelict farmhouse in the French village of Lansquenet , where a ghost from the past waits to confront him, and the reclusive Marise -haunted, lovely, and dangerous- hides a terrible secret behind her closed shuters. Between them, a mysterious chemistry. Or could it be magic?
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| Title | : | Blackberry Wine |
| Author | : | Joanne Harris |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 368 pages |
| Published | : | December 23rd 2003 by William Morrow Paperbacks (first published September 28th 1999) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Magical Realism. Cultural. France. Contemporary. Romance |
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Ratings: 3.8 From 13034 Users | 839 ReviewsAssess Containing Books Blackberry Wine
My first novel by the author of Chocolat and I have to say I enjoyed it far more than expected.The story of Jay Mackintosh, a 37 years old writer, famous because of an only novel written fifteen years ago. Jay seems to have lost inspiration and faith in the magic of life, as if all these feelings had been spent in that successful novel.The novel moves forward and backwards in time, and the reader is able to know young Jay, when he meets Joe, an eccentric old man who leaves a deep impression inBlackberry Wine (1999) & Five Quarters of the Orange (2001) by Joanne Harris Finished Reading: August 2015 Rating: 2/5 & 3/5 I read Harris' Five Quarters of the Orange & Blackberry Wine back to back, so I shall be reviewing them together. They are very similar, actually; a little too much. Both feature lead female protagonists that have strong, proud, independent, walled-away personalities, unwilling to accept, let alone ask, others for any sort of assistance. In both, they are not
This book is set in the same village as the author's most famous work Chocolat but it didn't have any of the charm for me. There's only a few characters in this book, but I didn't like any of them. The story didn't feel like it was going anywhere either. Not for me, but I still love the author and will read more from her.
Of all the books written by Harris, this is my favorite by far. It is a delightful tale of young Jay MacIntosh and the friendship he develops with Joe Cox over the course of 3 summers spent at a small village in England. Joe's past is never made clear; his tales become truth and his truths become tales. The one certainty is that Joe, in his ramshackle cabin knows all there is to know about gardening, herbs and their "magical" healing and protective powers, and wine-making. Althouogh the quality
This is a beautiful book, written by the author who later wrote Chocolat. Blackberry Wine takes place in both England and the same small French town that is the setting for Chocolat.Blackberry Wine tells the story of Jay, who as a boy, meets an eccentric man named Joe, who opens Jay's world to gardening and magic and homemade wine. As an adult and established author, Jay escapes his stifling life in England by buying a small cottage in Lansquenet, France, where he not only becomes a gardener,
I don`t get the alleged magic of this book. Boring... So I`m out, having read about 130 pages.
Writer's block has building blocks and built these walls around me I don't feel lucky in hereburied in my headI'm seeing red and nothing else- mad all the time by waterparksI could't get these lyrics out my head the entire time whilst reading this book
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