VIANNE (JOANNE HARRIS) (HB)

On the evening of July 4th, Sylviane Rochas scatters her mother's ashes in New York and lets the changing wind blow her to the French seaside town of Marseille. Charming her way into a job as a waitress in a local bistrot, she knows that she is not here to stay - by the time her child is born in a few months' time, she must be gone. Making recipes her own with the addition of bittersweet chocolate spices, she realises that it possesses its own magic in this town full of secrets.