Product Description

For all those who loved Chocolat - Vianne is back.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-21
• Binding: Paperback
• 496 pages

SUNDAY TIMES, 27 April 08
'Harris is as good at portraying the agonies of motherhood as she is at evoking the scent of bitter chocolate laced with cinnamon and chilli'

YOU magazine, Mail on Sunday, 4 May 08
'This fairy tale for grown-ups is iced with mouthwatering sugar and spice, but its centre is dark and mysterious'

EASY LIVING MAGAZINE, June 2007
Here is a truly delectable offering... Lush and bewitching, with a
dark, mystical heart, this is a novel you can't help but devour greedily.

Customer Reviews

Disgusted
Was looking forward to a 'new' joanne harris novel only to discover that I've just forked out money for a book I've already got i.e. The Lollipop Shoes. Amazon - you could have advertised this a bit better. Totally misleading to customers.

BUYERS BEWARE - THIS IS THE SAME BOOK AS THE LOLLIPOP SHOES. Now even more disgusted that Amazon are using reviews from last year for the Lollipop Shoes to try and sell this book. What a con.

More like a luke warm cup of tea than a delicious mug of hot chocolate
I was so disappointed with this book; when it first came out I even bought it in hardback as I had absolutley loved Chocolat (and the others of Harris's that I have read). I had practically been counting down the days to the release of this book and was left feeling incredibly underwhelmed by the whole thing.

The Lollipop Shoes is the story of Vianne and Anouk and Vianne's new daugher who have moved to Paris and set up a chocolate shop there too but there is none of the magic of that first shop, it's very dull and lacks sparkle. Also, the characters in Lollipop Shoes don't even seem to be the same people they were in Chocolat; Vianne was carefree and happy in Chocolat and in this she is dull and conventional (I know she is supposed to be hiding from her past but I just didn't buy it). And I found the storyline of Red coming back to find her almost ludicrous as their relationship in Chocolat never developed into what we are lead to belive it did in this book.

Call me an old cynic but I just get the feeling that this book has been penned this in order for it to be made into another film - it had none of the magic I had expected. Infact, it left me feeling flat as a pancake.

I would always invite someone to make up their own mind about a book but this really didn't cut it for me.

be carefull
this is a very good book if you have not read the Lollipop shoes , it is the same book under a diferent title, I think this is sharp practise if they wanted to change the title it should be advertised as such.