Rosette is unusual in many ways – she is sixteen but rarely speaks, and her best friend is a monkey named Bam, who other people cannot see. The villagers that once shunned Vianne for daring to peddle such indulgent treats have now embraced her as one of their own, and Vianne’s daughter, Anouk, just six when she and her mother moved to Lansquenet-sous-Tannes, has flown the nest.Īlthough Vianne misses Anouk desperately, she is content in the knowledge that her younger daughter, Rosette, will never leave her. The Strawberry Thief opens similarly to Chocolat: it is Lent, and Vianne is hard at work crafting her signature chocolate animals in preparation for Lansquenet-sous-Tannes’s Easter celebrations. Thankfully, there have been more books in the series since, and the really great news is that the much-anticipated latest instalment, The Strawberry Thief, is every bit as enchanting as the rest. Such was its impact, the world has never been quite the same place to many who read the mega best-seller that was turned into a box-office hit starring Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench and Johnny Depp. Hard to believe it’s been twenty years since the publication of Joanne Harris’s Chocolat, the sublime novel that introduced us to French chocolatier, Vianne Rocher, and the sleepy little village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes. But at last I have come to realise that no indulgence is harmless… Forty years a witch and now, at last, I have become a Puritan”. “I used to think it was simple, that art.
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