![]() ![]() Though fantastical, Harris says Vianne's world, in which seemingly ordinary people live decidedly extraordinary lives, was inspired, in part, by her own childhood. " Chocolat was very much about what makes you happy, whereas The Girl with No Shadow is what makes you afraid," Harris says. But if that first book was milk chocolate, Harris calls her latest work "dark chocolate." She describes the new novel as a dark, urban fairy tale. ![]() Harris says she took up Vianne Rocher's story again because it just didn't feel finished after Chocolat. But when an exotic stranger named Zozie enters the scene, Vianne realizes that it's not always easy to swear off the supernatural. Now a mother of two daughters, she is attempting to live a quiet, non-magical, dutifully maternal life in Montmartre. The story picks up five years after Vianne Rocher closed the door of her mystical candy shop. Joanne Harris' new novel, The Girl with No Shadow, revisits the supernaturally sensuous world of the author's 1996 book, Chocolat. Joanne Harris picks up the story of magical confectioner Vianne Rocher in her new novel, The Girl with No Shadow. ![]()
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