num_pages: 432
description: Beyond the main street of Les Laveuses runs the Loire, smooth and brown as a sunning snake - but hiding a deadly undertow beneath its moving surface. This is where Framboise, a secretive widow named after a raspberry liqueur, plies her culinary trade at the creperie - and lets her memory play strange games.Into this world comes the threat of revelation as Frambroise's nephew - a profiteering Parisian - attempts to exploit the growing success of the country recipes she has inherited from her mother, a woman remembered with contempt by the villagers of Les Laveuses. As the split blood of a tragic wartime childhood flows again, exposure beckons for Framboise, the widow with an invented past.
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: Black Swan