Wine talks. Everyone knows that. Look around you.<\/p>\n
Blackberry Wine<\/i>, Joanne Harris<\/p>\n
*****<\/p>\n
I bought this book at a charity shop just before leaving for France, and read it during the first three weeks. I was staying in a small untouristy village and when I found the story turning on another small French village and its future \u2013 draw tourists or perish \u2013 I started to live in the book, unable to put it down. I finished it at 4am on the morning of my last day, reading it to the end to cure my insomnia. (It didn\u2019t.) My bag was already packed, already too full, so I placed the book on the shelves with several other English language novels; it seems this flat is only ever let to English speakers.<\/p>\n
I liked Harris\u2019s tricky point of view \u2013 it\u2019s the bottle of wine that narrates the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Wine talks. Everyone knows that. Look around you. Blackberry Wine, Joanne Harris ***** I bought this book at a charity shop just before leaving for France, and read it during the first three weeks. I was staying in a small untouristy village and when I found the story turning on another small French village and … <\/p>\n