Somehow slower to get going than Harris’s other books that I’ve read, but it also tells a more complicated and deeper story than Chocolat or Blackberry Wine at least and so I find myself liking it more in the end because it gave me more to get out of it.

There are two storylines going on at once, intertangling so I didn’t know which I wanted to know the end of more. We see the story of nine year old Framboise Dartigen growing up in occupied France through the eyes of her sixty five year old self who has troubles of her own.

Damn good storytelling which is what I expected and I want more of it!