Blackberry Wine: from Joanne Harris, the bestselling author of Chocolat, comes a tantalising, sensuous and magical novel which takes us back to the charming French village of Lansquenet

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There is a series of events in this novel that while interesting to read about seemed to take away from the magic of this book. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention.

It wasn’t intended that way, but there are recurring themes (food/wine as an agent of transformation, magic, life in a small community) which link the two books. Joe, a colorful character who made wines from fruits and berries, inspired Joe's successful first novel. In what way would you say this novel is a story about the importance of nature in our increasingly urbanized lives?

Jay seems to have lost inspiration and faith in the magic of life, as if all these feelings had been spent in that successful novel. In 2000, her 1999 novel CHOCOLAT was adapted to the screen, starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp.

This story is about Jay Mackintosh and is partly told through the lens of a bottle of long-brewed wine which he holds dear to him. Joanne Harris is an Anglo-French author, whose books include fourteen novels, two cookbooks and many short stories. This is a book about haunted lives, unfinished stories and the chance to change your own life and atone for your past mistakes.Home brewed wine made by Joe takes unusual importance in the present time of the story, because it's only when Jay drinks it that he finds the courage to change what makes him unhappy. The novel moves forward and backwards in time, and the reader is able to know young Jay, when he meets Joe, an eccentric old man who leaves a deep impression in lonely Jay, becoming his special friend and his secret hideaway. If you want reminding of long hot summers, best friends and bike rides when we used to see magic in everyday things then treat yourself to Blackberry Wine. Surprisingly this works well; the bottle-as-narrator is not intrusive, and most of the book is told from the third-person viewpoint of Jay.