It’s never easy to face the fact that a man you once loved passionately has found the girl of his dreams, as Alice discovers when Joe introduces her to his new girlfriend Ginny. Jealous, Alice is repelled by Ginny – an ethereal beauty with a sinister group of friends. Then Alice finds an old diary hidden away in Ginny’s room and reads about a mysterious, bewitching woman, Rosemary Virginia Ashley, buried in Grantchester churchyard half a century ago – buried but far from forgotten.

As the stories intertwine, past and present are merged into one, and Alice is plunged into a nightmare world of obsession, revenge, seduction – and blood.

Narrator: Nicolette McKenzie, Michael Tudor Barnes
Unabridged, Length: 11 hours and 19 min.
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It’s never easy to face the fact that a man you once loved passionately has found the girl of his dreams, as Alice discovers when Joe introduces her to his new girlfriend Ginny. Jealous, Alice is repelled by Ginny – an ethereal beauty with a sinister group of friends. Then Alice finds an old diary hidden away in Ginny’s room and reads about a mysterious, bewitching woman, Rosemary Virginia Ashley, buried in Grantchester churchyard half a century ago – buried but far from forgotten.

As the stories intertwine, past and present are merged into one, and Alice is plunged into a nightmare world of obsession, revenge, seduction – and blood.

Narrator: Nicolette McKenzie, Michael Tudor Barnes
Unabridged, Length: 11 hours and 19 min.
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Vianne Rocher and her 6-year-old daughter, Anouk, arrive in the small village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes–”a blip on the fast road between Toulouse and Bourdeaux”–in February, during the carnival. Three days later, Vianne opens a luxuriant chocolate shop crammed with the most tempting of confections and offering a mouth-watering variety of hot chocolate drinks. It’s Lent, the shop is opposite the church and open on Sundays, and Francis Reynaud, the austere parish priest, is livid.

One by one the locals succumb to Vianne’s concoctions. Joanne Harris weaves their secrets and troubles, their loves and desires, into her third novel, with the lightest touch. There’s sad, polite Guillame and his dying dog; thieving, beaten-up Joséphine Muscat; schoolchildren who declare it “hypercool” when Vianne says they can help eat the window display–a gingerbread house complete with witch. And there’s Armande, still vigorous in her 80s, who can see Anouk’s “imaginary” rabbit, Pantoufle, and recognizes Vianne for who she really is. However, certain villagers–including Armande’s snobby daughter and Joséphine’s violent husband–side with Reynaud. So when Vianne announces a Grand Festival of Chocolate commencing Easter Sunday, it’s all-out war: war between church and chocolate, between good and evil, between love and dogma.
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Narrated by Juliet Stevenson
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