Joanne Harris
Tuesday 31st May 2022
Topping & Company Booksellers of Bath, York Street, Bath, Somerset BA1 1NG
7pm
7.30pm
Joanne Harris is the author of the Whitbread-shortlisted Chocolat, made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. She is has written an array of bestselling novels, including Lollipop Shoes, Peaches for Monsieur le Curé, and The Strawberry Thief, all also featuring Vianne Rocher. In 2013, she was awarded an MBE by the Queen.
Her work is extremely diverse, covering aspects of magic realism, suspense, historical fiction, mythology and fantasy. She will be discussing her brilliant latest novel, A Narrow Door, to celebrate its release in paperback.
Now I’m in charge, the gates are my gates. The rules are my rules.
It’s an incendiary moment for St Oswald’s school. For the first time in its history, a headmistress is in power, the gates opening to girls.
Rebecca Buckfast has spilled blood to reach this position. Barely forty, she is just starting to reap the harvest of her ambition. As the new regime takes on the old guard, the ground shifts. And with it, the remains of a body are discovered.
But Rebecca is here to make her mark. She’ll bury the past so deep it will evade even her own memory, just like she has done before. After all…
You can’t keep a good woman down.