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About the Author

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.

Praise for Holy Fools…

“Holy Fools is rich in style and nuance . . . an engaging, compelling read.”
-Denver Post

“HOLY FOOLS is exciting and dramatic and romantic.”
-Detroit Free Press

“An inventive meditation on morality and passion that surprises with a wholly uncompromising ending.”
-Entertainment Weekly

“A uniquely vivid, emotionally ripe, verbal feast for the imagination.”
-Richmond Times-Dispatch

“Compelling . . . a layered, mesmerizing gothic thriller.”
-Orlando Sentinel

“[A] fanciful soufflé of sex and intrigue in seventeenth-century France.”
-Elle (Holy Fools won the “Elle’s Lettres” Reader’s Prize for March 2004)

“Harris’s robust humor and whimsical fantasy suits this take of seventeenth-century France.”
-Juice

“Rapturous ...A dark, seductive exploration of passion and repression that plumbs the depths of the human psyche.”
-BookPage

“Harris is at her best in re-creating a real sense of France.”
-Seattle Times

“A page-turner with an irresistible plot, unforgettable characters and believable settings.”
-Oakland Tribune

“[C]hock-full of the dazzling, magical style that made Harris famous.”
-Rocky Mountain News

“Nimble plot twists and voluptuous language . . . daring.”
-Minneapolis Star Tribune

“Passionate ... Spicy characterizations, tart dark humor and seductively pungent prose.”
-Publishers Weekly (starred review)