Five quarters of the orange

By Joanne Harris

Subjects: Women cooks in fiction, Cookery in fiction, Widows in fiction, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Widows, fiction, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Women cooks, Domestic fiction, Literature, Restaurateurs, Psychological fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Cooking, Restaurateurs in fiction, World War, 1939-1945, Mothers and daughters in fiction, World War, 1939-1945 in fiction, Fiction, family life, Children, Restaurants in fiction, Fiction, Widows, Restaurants, Social aspects, History, Fiction, psychological, Cookery, Mothers and daughters, France, fiction

Description: When Framboise Simon returns to a small village on the banks of the Loire, the locals do not recognize her as the daughter of the infamous woman they hold responsible for a tragedy during the German occupation years ago. But the past and present are inextricably entwined, particularly in a scrapbook of recipes and memories that Framboise has inherited from her mother. And soon Framboise will realize that the journal also contains the key to the tragedy that indelibly marked that summer of her ninth year. . . .