by Joanne Harris · Black Swan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780552998000
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«Blackberry Wine» is the magic realism novel by Joanne Harris, published by Black Swan in paperback (416 pages, in English).
Jay Mackintosh remains trapped in memories of a childhood tied to a friend who made homemade wine. A bottle of blackberry wine opens an old mystery and leads him to an abandoned farm in Lansquenet, a French village where a ghost from the past and the reclusive Marise, who hides a secret, await him. Chemistry or magic?
The novel was originally published in 2000; the edition for this ISBN dates from 2001.
Recommended for readers of contemporary fiction who appreciate a French rural setting with supernatural undertones.
Joanne Michèle Sylvie Harris is a British author, best known for her 1999 novel Chocolat, which was adapted into a film of the same name. Born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, of a French mother and a British father, she was a teacher of French for 15 years and had published three novels during this period before the surprise success of Chocolat enabled her to write full time. Since then she has written over 30 books in a number of genres, including fantasy, psychological thriller, novellas, short stories and non-fiction. Harris' books often feature themes of women's empowerment, folklore, motherhood, community, outsiders and outcasts, and food.
