Five Quarters Of The Orange by Joanne Harris (Paperback, 2002).
Beyond the main street of Les Laveuses runs the Loire, smooth and brown as a sunning shake - but hiding a deadly undertow beneath its moving surface. This is where Frambois a secretive widow named after a raspberry liqueur, plies her culinary trade at the crêperie - and lets her memory play strange games.
Into this world comes the threat of revelation as Framboise' nephew - a profiteering Parisian - attempts to exploit the growing success of the country recipes she has inherited from her mother, a woman remembered with contempt by the villagers of Les laveuses. As the spilt blood of a tragic wartime childhood flows again, exposure beckons for
