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Joanne Harris is an Anglo-French author, whose books include twenty novels, three cookbooks, and many short stories. Her work is extremely diverse, covering aspects of magic realism, suspense, historical fiction, mythology, and fantasy. In 2000, her 1999 novel Chocolat was adapted to the screen, starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. She is an honorary Fellow of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, and in 2022 was awarded an OBE by Queen Elizabeth II. Her novels A Narrow Door and Broken Light are also available from Pegasus Books.
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Every time I bring out a new book, I’ve noticed the same set of conflicting
reactions from some elements of the Press. One faction inevitably complains
about how very different the present book is from the previous one (as if in
resentment at my having escaped the Sisyphean fate of rolling the same book
uphill throughout eternity), while the opposing faction sets out to prove how
all of my books are exactly the same. Some reviewers are so sure of their
ability to predict where I’m going next that they barely bother to glance at the
book at all, with embarrassing results (check out the journalist who described
Coastliners as “another of Harris’ sweeping historical epics”, or the one who
based her entire review of Jigs & Reels on a single story and wrote how “once
more, food and France play a leading role in this feelgood confection.”)
You may already know that I don’t like expectations. You may also be aware of
how I feel about being pushed, stamped, marked, labelled, briefed, debriefed and
numbered.
That’s why I published Jigs & Reels; to escape the box; to explore uncharted
space; to prove that all roads do not necessarily lead to France, or food, ...
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