Five Quarters of the Orange (Harris)

Five Quarters of the Orange
Joanne Harris, 2001
HarperCollins
307 pp.
ISBN-13: 9780061214608 


Summary
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. (From the publisher.)