Joanne Michèle Sylvie Harris:
(born 3 July 1964).
English-French author, best known for her 1999 novel Chocolat, which was adapted into a film of the same name.
Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.
Now is the month of Germinal in the Republican calendar—the month of hyacinth, and bees, and violet, and primrose. It is also the windy month, the month of new beginnings, and I have never felt it so strongly as I feel it now, that sense of possibility, that irresistible lightness.
