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Blackberry Wine: A Novel Paperback – December 23, 2003

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As a boy, writer Jay Mackintosh spent three golden summers in the ramshackle home of "Jackapple Joe" Cox. A lonely child, he found solace in Old Joe's simple wisdom and folk charms. The magic was lost, however, when Joe disappeared without warning one fall.

Years later, Jay's life is stalled with regret and ennui. His bestselling novel, Jackapple Joe, was published ten years earlier and he has written nothing since. Impulsively, he decides to leave his urban life in London and, sight unseen, purchases a farmhouse in the remote French village of Lansquenet. There, in that strange and yet strangely familiar place, Jay hopes to re-create the magic of those golden childhood summers. And while the spirit of Joe is calling to him, it is actually a similarly haunted, reclusive woman who will ultimately help Jay find himself again.

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    0380815923
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?A charming fairy tale for grown-ups.?--"Kirkus Reviews?An entertaining narrative, equal parts whimsy and drama.? --"Publisher's Weekly"Harris' best-selling novel "Chocolat [was] a frothy cup of spicy chocolate [that] could liberate and transform lives . . . "Blackberry Wine takes us to similar imaginative territory."--"The San Francisco Chronicle"[Harris'] voice is crisp and sure, touching the edges of things with cool light . . . as reliably darling as ["Chocolat] . . . a well-crafted escape into a world where lessons can be learned and evil [can] be given the slip."--"Seattle Times""Blackberry Wine is a classic of a beach book . . . [a] poetic pastiche of magical realism and travelogue-by-surrogate . . . in Harris' hands the gentle tug of the past is like a tsunami."--BookPage.com"Lost summers -- described vividly and nostalgiacally -- form the heart of the novel . . Harris has a lively and original talent."--"Sunday Times, London

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Joanne Harris is the author of seven previous novels—Chocolat, Blackberry Wine, Five Quarters of the Orange, Coastliners, Holy Fools, Sleep, Pale Sister, and Gentlemen & Players; a short story collection, Jigs & Reels; and two cookbook/memoirs, My French Kitchen and The French Market. Half French and half British, she lives in England.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ William Morrow Paperbacks; 13th Edition (December 23, 2003)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0380815923
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0380815920
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.7 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.31 x 0.83 x 8 inches
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Joanne Harris (OBE, FRSL) is the internationally renowned and award-winning author of over twenty novels, plus novellas, cookbooks, scripts, short stories, libretti, lyrics, articles, and a self-help book for writers, TEN THINGS ABOUT WRITING. In 2000, her 1999 novel CHOCOLAT was adapted to the screen, starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. She holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Sheffield and Huddersfield, is an honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Her hobbies are listed in Who's Who as 'mooching, lounging, strutting, strumming, priest-baiting and quiet subversion of the system'. She is active on social media, where she writes stories and gives writing tips as @joannechocolat; she posts writing seminars on YouTube; she performs in a live music and storytelling show with the #Storytime Band; and she works from a shed in her garden at her home in Yorkshire.

She also has a form of synaesthesia which enables her to smell colours. Red, she says, smells of chocolate.

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Jeff29c
5.0 out of 5 stars Pleasant and mystical
Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2021
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If you are not willing to believe in magical happenings then this book is not for you. It is beautifully written, lots of wisdom i.e. "you cannot miss that which you never had in the first place", but if you can accept that there is much possible with fantasy, you will really like this story. I guess we can say Jay is an unlikely person, someone you can't imagine actually existing, but his story captured me. Some reviews say they were off-put by the talking wine bottles. I can understand that but it doesn't happen very often in the book, and doesn't last long. The author has great descriptive ability, and the village she describes is appealing as are its characters. Joe's appearances and disappearances, his wisdom for Jay are the basis for everything, some of which you will guess, some of which probably not. I would recommend this book.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Another wonderful story from Joanne Harris
Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2006
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BLACKBERRY WINE by Joanne Harris

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Amazon Rating: 4/5 stars

In this book by Joanne Harris (author of Chocolat), the story revolves around writer Jay Mackintosh, and his search for happiness. The story is told via two time lines. The first one dates back to the 1970's, where Jay's memories take the reader back to his summers spent in a place that was known as Pog Hill in England. Out of these memories came his groundbreaking novel, JACKAPPLE JOE, based on the man that eventually became a mentor to him. Joe and Jay had a very unusual relationship, as Joe was much older but wiser and told Jay of his travels around the world, teaching Jay all about plants and healing and the magical power of herbs.

The second time line takes us to the present, when Jay has decided on a whim to purchase a cottage in a village in France that he believes is where Joe used to live, leaving his long time girlfriend Kerry without much of a warning. His relationship with Kerry is one sided, and he feels claustrophobic. Kerry really has no idea what is going on in Jay's mind, but she has a need to fix him and wants him to write that sequel to that great novel he is now known for.

The 1970's time line is one of nostalgia but it also has a big influence on Jay's present life, where he is filled with regret for losing track of Joe, a man that he took for granted as a boy, but now realizes that Joe meant the world to him. However, Jay thinks he's losing his mind as Joe begins to appear to Jay once he moves into the old cottage in the French village, and Jay's relationship with Joe begins anew.

Throughout the story, a series of wine bottles known as THE SPECIALS are always in the background, giving a sense of magic and surrealism to the story, as is common in all Joanne Harris novels. The Specials react to Jay's actions, and act as harbingers to what may happen next.

Jay's life takes a turn when he moves to the cottage, as he gains a new motivation to write that second novel. He also becomes curious about his neighbor, a woman who is known to covet his land and whose daughter is known to the village as deaf and dumb. But Jay knows there has to be a story here, and after he's learned a lot about the other villagers who become sources of potential characters in his new novel, he can't get a grasp on the mysterious Marise.

As always, I enjoyed this novel by Joanne Harris very much. The book started out at a slow pace, as the story is set up, but once I got the rhythm of the time lines, the book moved faster. This is a good read for all fans of Joanne Harris and readers of good fiction.
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Michelle Boytim
5.0 out of 5 stars Wines opening the magic of memory
Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2011
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Jay Mackintosh, a novelist, has been drifting in life since his first novel, a semi-autobiographical novel about his time with Joe, a gardener with a touch of magic about him that lived near his grandparents. We see flashbacks of his life with Joe during those difficult summers as he deals with bullies, his parents' divorce, and his first hints of love. Dissatisfied with his life, Jay buys a French chateau/farmhouse after opening one of Joe's Specials ( fruit wines). He leaves his girlfriend and begins a new life in the village (first seen in her book Chocolat). We see some familiar faces, but Jay and the ghost of Joe are key to the story as is the neighbor, a widow with a young girl who has a strained relationship with her mother-in-law and the village. Jay begins writing again and starts having hopes of a new beginning. At first, I wasn't sure I would like this book, but then Joanne Harris' magic kicked in both literally and figuratively. The story takes on some unexpected turns but ends in a satisfying conclusion.
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Adriennemk
4.0 out of 5 stars magic is not for everyone
Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2014
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Blackberry Wine got off to a slow start. The opening has various bottles of wine speaking to one another, not terribly believe able. But I stuck with it because I hate to leaves books unfinished, or at least not until I have read a third and then decided. And so I read on and I am glad I did. Meeting the character of Jay left me longing for places that are not so homogenized, where everyone doesn't dress alike, engage in group think, struggle to squash individuality and differences so as not to defend. Blueberry Wine left me seeking small towns, which individuality can thrive, where there is room for personal narrative.
And in the end magic does win. It is the magic that is within each of us unless we squash it, as we too often do. Light and enjoyable. A welcome respit from today's global and violent insanity.
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Peggy Vincent
5.0 out of 5 stars Worthy follow-up book to Chocolat
Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2003
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Joanne Harris peoples her stories with characters who are more than a little fey, individuals who possess a touch of magic and who live in the realm of myth or fairy tale. In Blackberry Wine, the magical character is Joe Cox, the pivotal character of Jay, an author's, youth in a small English village. Joe had a magical cottage and garden and made wine from the fruits and berries on his squatter's land by a river, and was the main character in Jay's award-winning novel. Joe's sudden disappearance devastated Jay. When he suffers depression and writer's block, he buys, sight unseen, an 18th century chateau. Joe's bottles of wine, which he's been carting around with him for the past 2 decades, also move to the French chateau. As Jay begins drinking them, magic happens, and there's the over-riding question of, Where is Joe now, and could it be that he's that guy who...?
To say more would be to say too much.
Lovely book.
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Hana
5.0 out of 5 stars Kept my interest to the end.
Reviewed in Canada on April 2, 2024
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I borrowed this book from the library and really liked it. Bought it now to re-read it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 16, 2020
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I have loved this book since I bought the 1st copy, I have had 3 I think and lent them out to friends and of course not had them back. The 1st Joanna Harris book that I bought was Chocolat , of course , and I was captivated by Vianne the good witch, I loved the film too, so then I bought this book which carries on in the same village 5 years after Vianne left so a lot of the old characters are still there ! I have never understood why the people who made the film Chocolat didn't make this into a film! It's got everything romance, intrigue, strong characters and even a ghost, whats not to like? There are not many books I feel inclined to read more than once but I recently read this one for the 3rd time, and will probably read it again in the future, and please if you are a film maker reading this then read the book and see the potential , I am fed up of the same stories being re-released all the time !!
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Shivangi Chaudhary
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it!!!!!!
Reviewed in India on May 25, 2019
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Wonderful book. Very fresh and amazing.
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Elena T. Ivanova
5.0 out of 5 stars Nice
Reviewed in Italy on November 13, 2013
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Another nice book of Joanne Harris, relaxing, you reelly seem to smell everything the author describes. And the happy end is always a plus :)
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