2019 A to Z Challenge -"F"
Color Coded Challenge - Yellow (I know it says orange, but it appears more yellow)
This book has been on my TBR since at least 2006 (when we started cataloging them, so probably even longer) and is my first by Joanne Harris.
I'm not quite sure how I feel about this book (besides hungry for oranges!). It is well written, compels the reader to continue to read to discover the secrets and provides a message of there being consequences to your actions - sometimes in the harshest sense. Yet, I never really connected to any of the characters, even though there is a lot of emotion in the book. It just never seemed to come off the page.
Summary from Fantastic Fiction: When the widowed Framboise moves back to the village of Les Laveuses, where she grew up, she is pleased to discover that no-one recognizes her. She soon forges a new life for herself there, and before long has established a profitable creperie. All is going well, until her profiteering nephew realizes that money can be made by publishing a collection of Framboise's increasingly popular recipes, left to her by her mother, a woman despised through the village. But if the book is published, Francoise's true identity will be revealed, opining the flood gates to a past life and painful childhood memories.
Quotes: "I don't see why the blood we share should tie us in affection."
"There is no recipe to take a child into sweet, safe adulthood."
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