Vianne rents a bakery and transforms it into a charming chocolate shop, something unheard of in the town. They rather enjoy themselves at the festival and decide to stay. On Mardi Gras, they stumble upon a quaint little French town, Lansquenet-sous-Tannes attracted by the beautiful festivities. Vianne Rocher and her daughter Anouk (and Anouk’s imaginary pet rabbit) are wanderers who have spent their lives travelling place to place, never staying at one place for too long. So along with a book review, you also get a lesson of “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover”. This book, in no way portrays a romance between the two main characters.
However I am glad to announce that I was proved wrong. From the cover and the name, I expected a clichéd, cheesy romance story. Red, she says, smells of chocolate.I started this book with no preconceived notions as I had never heard of this book or watched the movie before picking it up from the library shelf. She also has a form of synaesthesia which enables her to smell colours.
She is active on Twitter, where she writes stories and gives writing tips as she posts writing seminars on YouTube she performs in a live music and storytelling show with the #Storytime Band and she works from a shed in her garden at her home in Yorkshire. Her hobbies are listed in Who's Who as 'mooching, lounging, strutting, strumming, priest-baiting and quiet subversion of the system'. She is an honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and is currently Chair of the Society of Authors. In 2000, her 1999 novel CHOCOLAT was adapted to the screen, starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. Joanne Harris (OBE, FRSL) is the internationally renowned and award-winning author of over twenty novels, plus novellas, cookbooks, scripts, short stories, libretti, lyrics, articles, and a self-help book for writers, TEN THINGS ABOUT WRITING.
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