The Girl With No Shadow- The eagerly anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestseller- Chocolat by Joanne Harris. Jacket design by Ervin Serrano Jacket photograph by Davis McCardle / Getty Images.
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Joanne Harris is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Blackberry Wine and Chocolat, which was nominated for the Whitbread Award, one of Britain's most prestigious literary prizes. Half French and half British, Harris lives in England.
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63 of 68 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Dark Chocolat,
By cbristah (Alaska) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Girl with No Shadow (published in the UK as The Lollipop Shoes) (Hardcover)
Joanne Harris's sequel to her sly, clever novel, Chocolat, finds Vianne and her two daughters living in Paris four years after the wind blew them out of the village of Lansquenet. Gone is the magic that enriched their lives and transformed the village, and that is fine by Vianne. Now calling herself Yanne, she only wants her family to be normal and safe, and on the surface, it seems to be. Anouk is now a pre-teen with an early adolescent's normal angst. Her younger sister, Rosette, appears intelligent enough even if she can't talk. And Yanne herself is soon to be engaged to her staid bourgeois landlord. Life couldn't be more ordinary, until the fateful wind blows into their lives a mysterious and exotic woman who seems to know all about "Yanne" and her family. Soon Vianne faces an adversary who threatens everything she holds dear and whose skills are as great as her own.Although it's a sequel to Chocolat, The Girl With No Shadow is not Chocolat II. It is a darker, grittier story of mothers and daughters, love and loss. Although readers may expect the same Disneyesque charm of the first novel, this contemporary fairy-tale is more in the vein of the Brothers Grimm. My only quibble is I missed the zest of earlier Vianne during most of the story. The villain was a much more compelling creation. Nevertheless, fans who want to follow the characters from Chocolat will enjoy this book.
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
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Another Sweet Treat,
By Joanne Harris has a true knack for narrating the yin and yang in life. She did an amazing job in Chocolat and continues to do so in Lollipop Shoes. Her characters are wonderfully developed and very realistic. I do recommend reading Chocolat first if you want the background of the main characters going into this novel. My interest was held from the first page to the last. When Ms. Harris uses food in the titles of her books, you are in for a feast. Bon appetit!
20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Vianne and Anouk return from the ashes,
This review is from: The Girl with No Shadow (published in the UK as The Lollipop Shoes) (Hardcover)
Joanne Harris's Girl With No Shadow comes a decade after the original novel Chocolat, later made into a feature film (Chocolat (Miramax Collector's Series))starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. Chocolat revolved around the culinary magic of Vianne Rocher, an unorthodox chocolatiere who includes a sprinkle of magic that shakes up the local conservative villagers. In Girl With No Shadow, Vianne, now renamed Yanne Charbonneau, has relocated to Paris after fleeing several other bad situations. She has shunned her magical tendencies, putting away the tarot cards and forbidding incantations by Anouk (renamed Annie), thereby trading her individuality for a stable life at the side of Thierry Le Tresset, wealthy (and stuffy) bachelor.The novel is told from the (confusing) viewpoint of three different characters: Vianne, Anouk, and Zozie de l'Alba in a narrow timeframe ranging from October 31 to December 24. At times, the three are commenting on events happening on the same day. Vianne's past literally comes back to haunt her in the form of the mysterious Zozie, and the young Anouk is sliding into perilous teenage rebellion, hanging out in cemeteries and engaging in forbidden acts of magic. The cast of characters is too large to be explored in detail, and even the appearance of an old friend from the original novel is lost in the fray. Having three narrators fails to solidify the action, and it took me a few chapters to clue in that different characters were narrating (the images at the top of the chapters are different for each character). Flashbacks were to actions not covered in the original novel, and the frequent time travel left me confused at the all-too-important omissions of pivotal earlier events such as the birth of Vianne's second child, Rosette, who at four is non-verbal and quite possibly autistic. Although the descriptions of chocolates are mouthwatering, too often the action felt staged, stale, and not in the magical spirit of the original novel Chocolat. Make no mistake: this is no sweet Chocolat Part Deux; it's dark, gritty, and haunting, wrapped in dark secrets, past injustices, and the desire for revenge that consumes several characters at various points. It's definitely not a feel-good book, although if you enjoyed Vianne's character, you may enjoy The Girl With No Shadow. It's most definitely a reinvention of classic fairy tales for grown-ups.
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IT IS A RELATIVELY LITTLE-KNOWN FACT THAT, OVER THE COURSE OF A single year, about twenty million letters are delivered to the dead. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Joanne Haevis, Vianne Rocher, Madame Luzeron, Joanne Hauvis, Les Laveuses, Yanne Charbonneau, Kindly Ones, Madame Pinot, Madame Poussin, Place du Tertre, Changing Wind, Rue de la Croix, One Jaguar, Laurent Pinson, Pied Piper, Françoise Lavery, Black Man, Jean-Loup Rimbault, Smoking Mirror, Lady Blood Moon, Jeanne Moreau, New York, Queen of Hearts, Place des Faux-Monnayeurs, Butte de Montmartre Browse Sample Pages:
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IT IS A RELATIVELY LITTLE-KNOWN FACT THAT, OVER THE COURSE OF A single year, about twenty million letters are delivered to the dead. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
snow child, cat baby, one monkey, shoe lady, lollipop shoes, black piñata, rum truffles, cat charm Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Joanne Haevis, Vianne Rocher, Madame Luzeron, Joanne Hauvis, Les Laveuses, Yanne Charbonneau, Kindly Ones, Madame Pinot, Madame Poussin, Place du Tertre, Changing Wind, Rue de la Croix, One Jaguar, Laurent Pinson, Pied Piper, Françoise Lavery, Black Man, Jean-Loup Rimbault, Smoking Mirror, Lady Blood Moon, Jeanne Moreau, New York, Queen of Hearts, Place des Faux-Monnayeurs, Butte de Montmartre Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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