num_pages: 307
description: When Framboise Simon returns to a small village on the banks of the Loire, the locals do not recognize her as the daughter of the infamous woman they hold responsible for a tragedy during the German occupation years ago. But the past and present are inextricably entwined, particularly in a scrapbook of recipes and memories that Framboise has inherited from her mother. And soon Framboise will realize that the journal also contains the key to the tragedy that indelibly marked that summer of her ninth year. . . .
language: English
title: Five Quarters of the Orange
titlecomplete: Five Quarters of the Orange
characters: Laure Dessanges, Mirabelle Dartigen, Cassis Dartigen, Luc Dessanges, Tomas Leibniz, Yannick, Reine-Claude Dartigen, Paul Hourias, Framboise Dartigen
genres: Book Club, Historical, Historical Fiction, Food, War, Mystery, Fiction, Contemporary, World War II, France
ratings_count: 36012
places: Les Laveuses
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist
publisher: Harper Perennial