Five Quarters of the Orange
Publisher: 2001.
Published: 2001
Place of publication: HarperCollins
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780060198138
Subjects: Fiction; Mothers and Daughters; France; Cookery; .
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 memory play strange games.".

"Into this world comes the threat of revelation as Framboise'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 spilt blood of a tragic wartime childhood flows again, exposure beckons for Framboise, the widow with an invented past."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: 20010829.