Joanne Harris





Joanne Harris

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in Barnsley, The United Kingdom
July 03, 1964

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Joanne Harris was born in Barnsley in 1964, of a French mother and an English father. She studied Modern and Mediaeval Languages at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge and was a teacher for fifteen years, during which time she published three novels; The Evil Seed (1989), Sleep, Pale Sister (1993) and Chocolat (1999), which was made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp.

Since then, she has written five more novels; Blackberry Wine, Five Quarters of the Orange, Coastliners, Holy Fools, and, most recently, Gentlemen and Players, plus; Jigs & Reels, a collection of short stories and,...more


Average rating: 3.77 · 96,894 ratings · 8,305 reviews · 42 distinct works · Similar authors
Chocolat (Chocolat, #1)
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 42,984 ratings — published 1998 — 99 editions
Five Quarters of the Orange
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 14,899 ratings — published 2001 — 55 editions
Blackberry Wine
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 5,894 ratings — published 1999 — 38 editions
Gentlemen and Players
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 5,565 ratings — published 2005 — 43 editions
The Girl with No Shadow (Ch...
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 6,750 ratings — published 2007 — 57 editions
Holy Fools
3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 4,002 ratings — published 2003 — 38 editions
Coastliners
3.42 of 5 stars 3.42 avg rating — 3,751 ratings — published 2002 — 47 editions
Runemarks (Runemarks, #1)
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 2,736 ratings — published 2007 — 35 editions
Sleep, Pale Sister
3.21 of 5 stars 3.21 avg rating — 1,801 ratings — published 1994 — 29 editions
Peaches for Father Francis ...
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 1,992 ratings — published 2012 — 9 editions
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Chocolat The Girl with No Shadow Peaches for Father Francis
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3.675289312457454 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 2,938 ratings

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“Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.”
Joanne Harris, Chocolat

“I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.”
Joanne Harris, Five Quarters of the Orange

“Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them until the blood flows.”
Joanne Harris, The Girl with No Shadow

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