description: When the widowed Framboise moves back to the village of Les Laveuses, where she grew up, she is pleased to discover that no-one recognises her. She soon forges a new life for herself there, and before long has established a profitable creperie. All is going well, until her profiteering nephew realises that money can be made by publishing a collection Framboise's increasingly popular recipes, left to her by her mother a woman despised throughout the village. For the book to be a success, her true identity must be revealed, opening the flood gates to a past life and painful childhood memories.
title: Five Quarters of the Orange
titlecomplete: Five Quarters of the Orange
characters: Yannick, Laure Dessanges, Luc Dessanges, Reine-Claude Dartigen, Mirabelle Dartigen, Tomas Leibniz, Paul Hourias, Framboise Dartigen, Cassis Dartigen
genres: Fiction, Historical, France, War, Mystery, Book Club, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Food, World War II
ratings_count: 36019
places: Les Laveuses
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist
publisher: Hodder Headline Audiobooks