"Bernie Ingram is forty-nine, menopausal, lonely. Married since the age of eighteen, with no close friends and few family ties, she feels as if the past thirty years of her life have been sacrificed to others: to her husband Martin, who still carries a torch for a one-night stand university; to her son Dante, whose affection seems largely directed towards his maternal grandmother; to her boss Salena, who runs a struggling bookshop in East Finchley. Bernie's own ambitions and dreams have been forgotten by everyone-in cluding Bernie herself, who feels herself growing less visible, less surprising, less lovable, with every passing day. Until the murder of a woman in a local park unlocks a series of childhood memories-and with them, a power that she has suppressed for all her adult life..."--
Biografie
Joanne Harris arbeitete fünfzehn Jahre lang als Lehrerin, bevor ihr mit Chocolat der Durchbruch gelang. Sie ist heute eine der erfolgreichsten und einflussreichsten englischen Autorinnen. Weltweit hat sie mehr als 15 Millionen Bücher verkauft.