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	ReadingGroupGuides.com - Holy Fools by Joanne Harris
		Joanne Harris, bestselling author of Chocolat, presents her most accomplished novel yet -- an intoxicating concoction that blends theology and reason, deception and masquerade, with a dash of whimsical humor and a soupçon of sensuality.
		Though Joanne Harris emphasizes that Holy Fools 'is altogether fictional and should not be seen as a historical representation of specific events,' she says that idea for the came to her when she was reading a history book, which mentioned an eleven-year-old Mother Superior who enacted stringent reforms at an abbey in Port-Royal.
		Joanne Harris has written that neither this novel nor Chocolat were meant as indictments of Catholicism; she believes that churches and other institutions are only as good or as bad as those who serve them.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/holy_fools1.asp (650 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Interviews : app5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Joanne Harris returns to her native county as she explores the secrets and spies of a very English school.
		The bilingual Harris was tackling Proust by the age of 12.
		Joanne Harris was born in 1964 to a French mother and English father, raised in Barnsley, Yorkshire and educated in Wakefield and Barnsley.
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /books/interviews/article317662.ece (1590 words)

	authortrek.com - Joanne Harris interview
		Joanne Harris: When I was a schoolgirl I had a lucky jumper, which I wore to pass exams.
		Joanne Harris: I think geographical location shapes the personality in that people behave in different ways according to where they are and the characters of those around them.
		Joanne Harris: Well of course in Victorian times all women were viewed as potentially unstable (the affliction of "hysteria" - a uniquely female complaint - most often being cured by total "hysterectomy") by virtue of their sex.
	www.authortrek.com /joanne_harris_interview.html (2811 words)

	Joanne Harris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joanne Michèle Sylvie Harris (born July 3, 1964) is a British author.
		She was born in Yorkshire to a French mother and an English father; her family life was filled with food and folklore, an environment that would play a key role as an adult in the development of her novels.
		The success of the motion picture, starring Juliette Binoche, brought Harris wide recognition in North America.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joanne_Harris (225 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Coastliners - Joanne Harris - Paperback - First Perennial Edition
		With Coastliners, her fourth novel in four years, Harris introduces readers to a sleepy French island and a narrator, Mado, who has returned to the place after many years away and quickly asserts herself in the mysterious politics of the locals.
		Harris develops her beguiling story in layers, drawing Madeleine into the village life she loves and loathes while exploring the nuances of island living.
		As in her previous work, Harris (Chocolat) is a master at the long, quiet, atmospheric novel in which it appears that nothing much is happening.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=2s0h7K9A02&isbn=0060958014&TXT=Y&itm=1 (1154 words)

	Coastliners by Joanne Harris - read excerpt
		The foregoing is excerpted from Coastliners by Joanne Harris.
		Joanne Harris writes fiction that engages every one of the senses: reviewers called Chocolat "delectable" and Five Quarters of the Orange "sweet and powerful." In her new novel, she takes readers to a tiny French island where you can almost taste the salt on your lips.
		Harris lives in Yorkshire, England with her husband and daughter.
	mostlyfiction.com /excerpts/coastliners.htm (1245 words)

	Coastliners, Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris - read reviews
		Joanne Harris' Coastliners is a departure from her Lansquenet stories (Chocolat, Blackberry Wine).
		Harris chose to stop being so light and magical and to instead go deeper into relationships and the hardships of a dying community.
		Joanne Harris was born in the North of England and as a girl lived in her grandparents' candy shop in France.
	mostlyfiction.com /world/harris.htm (1645 words)

	Bookreporter.com - COASTLINERS by Joanne Harris
		Once again exploring the inner-workings of community, of who fits in and why, Harris deftly imparts deep-rooted feelings of loss with those of revenge to the inhabitants of Les Salants, a town where historical feuds fester and faith in a Saint overrides a sense of independent action.
		Harris treats readers to descriptions of Les Salants and its residents that seem almost tangible.
		Harris strikes gold in this new novel, which catapults readers into the disheveled lives of one family that exists on an island of its very own.
	aolsvc.bookreporter.aol.com /reviews/0060958014.asp (445 words)

	Joanne Harris at Transworld
		Joanne has no desire to move away from the area, where she has lived all her life apart from her time at Cambridge.
		Joanne Harris achieves everything a novelist should aim for, with no sense of effort or striving...Harris' achievement is not only in her story, in her insight and humour and the wonderful picture of small-town life in rural France, but also in her writing.
		'Coastliners is another triumph for Joanne Harris who shows that her powerful imagery is not exclusive to food and uses the coastline, sea and beaches to heighten the senses, drawing the reader further in with each incoming tide.
	www.booksattransworld.co.uk /joanneharris/home.htm (1407 words)

	Harris, Joanne (1964- ), contemporary British novelist
		Through this aspect of her family history, and the fact that her French great-grandmother was labeled a witch and healer, Harris was inspired to write Chocolat.
		Overall, Harris enjoyed the film version of her tale, although she was somewhat bothered by the alterations that made the film “more acceptable for a cinema audience.”
		There were mixed responses to this novel because Harris continued to utilize food as a major theme.
	www.ferrum.edu /thanlon/profwrit/jharris.html (478 words)

	Chocolat, by Joanne Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Harris offers descriptions of chocolate real enough to melt in the mouths of chocoholics, francophiles, armchair gourmets, cookbook readers, and lovers of passion everywhere.
		The battle lines between church and chocolate are drawn by this British (and part French) author in her appealing debut about a bewitching confectioner who settles in a sleepy French village and arouses the appetites of the pleasure-starved parishioners.
		As a witch's daughter who inherited her mother's profound distrust of the clergy, Vianne never quite comes to life, but her child, Anouk, is an adorable sprite, a spunky six-year-old already wise to the ways of an often inhospitable world.
	www.bonster.com /chocolat.html (259 words)

	Food Magic and Westerns: The Novels of Joanne Harris: Commentary by Serena Trowbridge
		Appropriately, therefore, when I went to hear Joanne Harris speak as part of the Birmingham Book Festival, in an event hosted by Debbie Taylor from Mslexia, the magazine for women who write (www.mslexia.co.uk), Ms Harris commenced her talk by emphasising the importance of fairytales.
		Joanne’s reluctance to be pigeonholed was evident in everything she said (and in the fact that she wore plain fl with fantastic fluorescent green boots!)
		Joanne, however, enjoyed it, and added that she could hardly complain, as she had been lucky enough to be involved from the start.
	trashotron.com /agony/columns/2003/12-30-03.html (1221 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Chocolat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Joanne Harris weaves their secrets and troubles, their loves and desires, into her third novel, with the lightest touch.
		Harris never completely answers that question, but then the first-person narrative allows Vianne to reveal only as much as she wishes, and she herself rejects any suspicion of such abilities.
		As Harris takes us inexorably towards Easter, it's clear that some sort of confrontation is coming between the old habits and the new, the dull darkness of conformity and the glad brightness of joy, and the priest and the chocolate-woman.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/014100018X?v=glance (2114 words)

	Powell's Books - Holy Fools by Joanne Harris
		With her internationally bestselling novels Chocolat, Blackberry Wine, Five Quarters of the Orange, and Coastliners, Joanne Harris has woven intoxicating spells that celebrate the sensuous while exposing the passion, secrets, and folly beneath the surface of rustic village life.
		"Harris treats readers to a feast for the senses, an aromatic melange of 17th-century France and its roiling Catholicism.
		Joanne Harris is the author of five critically acclaimed novels and a cookbook/memoir, My French Kitchen.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=2-0060559128-4 (498 words)

	berniE-zine Book Reviews: Chocolat, by Joanne Harris
		Alternately told from the point of view of both Vianne and Pere Reynaud, the story deftly explores the inherent conflicts between following "the letter of the law" and "the spirit of the law" with regard to the church's teachings.
		Harris does a wonderful job with the character development of the townspeople, weaving in a close examination of the concepts of friendship, obsession, pride, and asceticism.
		Harris' prose is lush without being flowery as she drops you, like the protagonist, into a microcosm where the magic of confectionaries does seem able to solve nearly every problem.
	rantsravesreviews.homestead.com /Chocolat.html (464 words)

	berniE-zine Book Reviews: Holy Fools, by Joanne Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Joanne Harris burst onto the literary scene with her novel
		And again, Harris deftly explores how, depending on who's at the pulpit, religion can be manipulated to achieve either justice or injustice.
		Harris has excelled at providing not only a story of lovers destined to meet time and time again in emotional and psychological battle, but at immersing her readers in a world they will be disappointed to leave when they reach the last page.
	www.homestead.com /rantsravesreviews/HolyFools.html (468 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Blackberry Wine : A Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Joanne Harris's first novel, Chocolat, was set in the sleepy French village of Lansquenet, where enchantment, romance, and soft-centered truths issued from the local confectioner's shop.
		Joanne Harris has a wonderful gift, and her narrative is done with charm and grace.
		Joanne Harris peoples her stories with characters who are more than a little fey, individuals who possess a touch of magic and who live in the realm of myth or fairy tale.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0380815923?v=glance (2139 words)

	Review - Chocolat by Joanne Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is a charming story, whimsical, about a woman and her daughter who arrive in a small town in France and decide to stay there.
		Joanne Harris has a gift for description, most certainly, and the relationships that she paints are beautifully done, but it is a bit on the twee side of life for me.
		The characters she speaks of are each understandable in their own way, even the much maligned priest who feels that his flock are being led from the one true path, and horror-of-horrors, at Lent, too.
	booklore.co.uk /PastReviews/HarrisJoanne/Chocolat/ChocolatReview.htm (441 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Blackberry Wine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Her previous novel, Chocolat, was a delicious confection, melding together bewitchment and romance in a chocolatier, in the sleepy French village of Lansquenet.
		Joanne Harris' Lansquenet is fast becoming a fairy tale destination, where daydreams become enchantingly possible.
		I have only read two of Joanne Harris' novels - this and "Chocolat" - and I have to say that, although I more or less enjoyed both books, I was left with an unsatisfied feeling after finishing them.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0552998001 (1159 words)

	Sleep, Pale Sister (Joanne Harris) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Joanne Harris obeys the literary conventions of the early Gothic here by making Chester a Catholic - Matthew 'Monk' Lewis' Ambrosio removed from his Abbey and placed into the art world.
		Joanne Harris is an excellent storyteller, with a quite distinctive style.
		In Chocolat, there's a delicious scene in which Harris refers to 'Alice in Wonderland', and it seems as though she could be hinting to Charles Dodgsons' suspected paedophilia.
	www.readthegame.com /uk/product/0552771783.htm (1480 words)

	Joanne Harris Discussion
		The underlying narration of the Wine Bottles along with the culmination of the last bottle being opened in unison with the end of the story was humorous and clever, and brought the novel into a full circle with a clever twist of fate.
		I strongly recommend Seamus Heaney's "Death of a Naturalist" as the poetic language in his work complements the effortless range of style Harris uses in her entertaining descriptions of scent, wine and plants.
		I haven't read any Joanne Harris exept Coastliners and i Thought that It could have been better explained and detailed.But hearing all the comments on holy fools I deafinetly gonna read that.
	www.gnooks.com /discussion/joanne+harris.html (410 words)

	Authortrek.com - Joanne Harris page - Joanne Harris bibliography
		Joanne Harris was born in Barnsley in 1964.
		Joanne does not encourage readers to search out this early novel, as it’s quite different from her other novels and is a bit horrifying in places.
		Joanne Harris lives in Huddersfield with her husband and her daughter.
	www.authortrek.com /joanne_harris_page.html (1023 words)

	Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Joanne Harris
		Joanne lives in Huddersfield, England, with her husband and daughter.
		Joanne Harris is the author of the international bestselling novels CHOCOLAT, BLACKBERRY WINE, and FIVE QUARTERS OF THE ORANGE.
		In this interview Harris talks in-depth about her latest novel COASTLINERS, which centers on a woman who returns to her home in France hoping to reconcile with her estranged father.
	www.bookreporter.com /authors/au-harris-joanne.asp (933 words)

	Jigs & Reels By Joanne Harris
		Joanne Harris has decided to take a different writing avenue with Jigs and Reels, her first collection of short stories.
		This reader was delighted to find something different from the author's usual full-length novel and to discover the depth of subjects that Ms.
		Harris is able to write about while still managing to keep a reader's attention.
	www.myshelf.com /literary/05/jigs&reels.htm (127 words)

	Joanne Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Joanne Harris is the author of Chocolat, which was nominated for the prestigious Whitbread Award.
		Joanne's new novel, Gentlemen and Players will be available January 2006.
		In this 20 minute interview Joanne Harris talks about her concept of home, and reveals how being a child of two different cultures inspired her writing.
	www.joanneharris.com /author/author.asp (207 words)

	Joanne Harris, Chocolat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Then Vianne Rocher and her daughter Anouk, the heroines of Joanne Harris's new novel Chocolat, breeze into town on the changing wind, and Lansquenet will never be the same again.
		Some of the most moving passages of the entire novel focus on Vianne's love for her daughter, her "little stranger;" the intensity of these feelings awakened pangs of familiarity in my chest and brought tears to my eyes.
		Harris deftly balances these events with the everyday events of the novel and Vianne's memories of her life with her mother; the result is the feeling that we are presented with the entire story of a particular time in a person's life, both the important and the insignificant.
	www.rambles.net /harris_chocolat.html (434 words)

	Moviefone: Movie Celebrities - JoAnne Harris: MAIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Visit Joanne's personal site at Joanne-Harris.co.uk and learn more about the inspiration behind her books.
		Joanne Harris is the author of Chocolat, which was nominated for the...
		In this 20 minute interview Joanne Harris talks about her concept of home,...
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/main.adp?sid=93524 (202 words)

	Alibris: Joanne Harris
		It's not surprising that Joanne Harris's novels -- Chocolat, Blackberry Wine, and Five Quarters of the Orange -- celebrate the pleasure and magic of food, since her fondest childhood memories are of making pancakes with her great-grandmother Mémée, picking flberries with her grandfather in Yorkshire, and exploring the early...
		This follow up to the six lead titles in the Get Ready Series will help parents help their kids to develop the core skills they so desperately need to do well in their classes and to perform at grade level on standardized tests.
		Once again Joanne Harris and Fran Warde have collaborated to write a French cookbook with a difference.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Joanne_Harris (510 words)

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