This time wine replaces chocolate as Harris's magic elixir, and the newcomer to the village of Lansquenet sur Tannes is Jay Mackintosh, a 37-year-old has-been writer from London.
If only real life were so simple.Like her well-received 1999 novel, Chocolat, Harris's latest outing unfolds around the arrival of an outsider in a tiny French town. Life in small-town France has given Jay his groove back. From the moment he lands in Lansquenet, Jay's typewriter Marise, the widow next door and the subject of gossip in the village, ultimately reveals her own preposterous tale of woe. It's what's inside.'' (We even get ''Home is where the heart is.'') The point that Joe has perhaps too much magic and ''It's not what things look like that matters. Tiny chuckle emerged from the bottle's throat.'' Worse, too many cliches, usually uttered by Joe, attempt to pass as deep thoughts: ''Sometimes real and imaginary are the same thing after all'' Both apples, aren't we?'' Harris has an irritating habit of anthropomorphizing the wine associated with Joe in one scene, ''a
Out that they must be near-relatives: ''Cox and Mackintosh. When Jay was 12, Joe sealed their unlikely friendship by pointing
The novel are flashbacks about an old man whom Jay adored in his youth and who was the hero of his first novel, a mystical gardener and winemaker named Joe Cox. He leaves behind his life in London with his too-trendy girlfriend, Kerry, who works in television. On a whim, he buys a farmhouse in the rural village of Lansquenet and quickly moves there. But after the frenzy dies down, Jay is unable to produce anything of the same caliberįor 14 years. Jay's first novel garnered the kind of critical attention and strong sales that signal the start of a brilliant career. N Joanne Harris's second novel - her first, ''Chocolat,'' was turned into the recent film with Juliette Binoche and Johnnyĭepp - we meet Jay Mackintosh, a 37-year-old British novelist who overcomes an extreme case of writer's block by rusticating in the French countryside and cuddling up with the mysterious and beautiful young widow
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