Early life edit Harris was born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, to an English father and a French mother.

She plays bass guitar in a band first formed when she was 16, is currently studying Old Norse and lives with her husband Kevin and daughter Anouchka, about 15 miles from the place she was born. Joanne Michle Sylvie Harris OBE FRSL (born 3 July 1964) is an English-French author, best known for her novel Chocolat (1999), which was adapted the following year for the film Chocolat. In 2013 she was awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. Then into their lives blows Zozie de l'Alba, the lady with the lollipop shoes, and everything begins to change. I enjoy Joanne Harris' writing style and she tells a good story, making the mystical quite believable in a grown-up way. Seeking refuge and anonymity in the cobbled streets of Montmartre, Yanne and her daughters live peacefully above their little chocolate shop. Her books are now published in over 50 countries and have won a number of British and international awards. Of all the books in the series, it was The Lollipop Shoes that grabbed me most, and the more i read of it, the harder it was to put down. In addition to this impressive output, she has published two books of short stories Jigs & Reels (2004), and A Cat, A Hat and a Piece of String (2012), and, with cookery writer Fran Warde, three cookbooks The French Kitchen and The French Market and The Little Book of Chocolat. Since then, she has written eleven more novels Blackberry Wine (2000), Five Quarters of the Orange (2001), Coastliners (2002), Holy Fools (2003), Gentlemen and Players (2005), The Lollipop Shoes (2007), Runemarks (2007), Blueeyedboy (2010), Runelight (2011), Peaches for Monsieur le Curé (2012), The Gospel of Loki (2014) and The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Time Traveller (2014).

She studied Modern and Mediaeval Languages at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge and was a teacher for fifteen years, during which time she published three novels The Evil Seed (1989), Sleep, Pale Sister (1993) and Chocolat (1999), which was made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. Joanne Harris was born in Barnsley in 1964, of a French mother and an English father. Read The Lollipop Shoes (Chocolat 2) the delightful bestselling sequel to Chocolat, from international multi-million copy seller Joanne Harris by Joanne.

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