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Chapters (96)
  1. Cover
  2. About the Book
  3. The Lollipop Shoes
  4. Dedication
  5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  6. PART ONE
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  12. PART TWO
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  21. PART THREE
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  28. PART FOUR
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  38. PART FIVE
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  51. PART SIX
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  64. PART SEVEN
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  74. PART EIGHT
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  94. Epilogue
  95. About the Author
  96. Also by Joanne Harris

I know it’s only cheap magic. Jeanne Rocher would not have approved. But it’s our magic, mine and his, and he tastes of chocolate and champagne, and finally, we slip out of our clothes and lie entwined beneath a blanket of stars.

Across the water, music plays, a tune I almost recognize.

V’là l’bon vent, v’là l’joli vent

There isn’t so much as a breath of wind.

Epilogue

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Tuesday, 25th December
Christmas Day

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER gift. Another city opens its arms. Well, Paris was getting stale, you know, and I love New York at this time of year. A pity about Anouk, I guess. Chalk it down to experience.

As for her mother – well, she had her chance. There may be a little short-term unpleasantness. Thierry, especially, will try to make his fraud charge stick, though I wouldn’t rate his chance of success. Identity theft is so common these days – as I imagine he’ll soon find out, when he looks at his savings account. As for Françoise Lavery – there are too many people who can swear Vianne Rocher was in Montmartre at the time.

Meanwhile, it’s off to pastures new. There’s plenty of mail in New York, you know, and it goes without saying that a certain percentage of it may go astray. Names, addresses, credit cards – not to mention bank details, final demands, gym memberships, curriculum vitae, all the trivia that makes up your life, just waiting to be harvested by someone with initiative . . .

Who am I now? Who could I be? I could be the next person you meet walking down the street. I could be standing behind you at the supermarket checkout. I could be your new best friend. I could be anyone. I could be you—

I’m a free spirit, don’t forget—

And I go wherever the wind takes me.

THE END

About the Author

About the Author

Joanne Harris is the author of Chocolat (made into an Oscar-nominated film in 2000, with Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp), and ten more bestselling novels. Her work is published in over fifty countries and has sold an estimated 30 million copies worldwide. Born in Barnsley, of an English father and a French mother, she studied Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge and spent fifteen years as a teacher before (somewhat reluctantly) becoming a full-time writer. She lives in Yorkshire with her family, plays bass in a band first formed when she was sixteen, works in a shed in her garden, likes musical theatre and old sci-fi, drinks rather too much caffeine, spends far too much time online and occasionally dreams of faking her own death and going to live in Hawaii.

Also by Joanne Harris

The Evil Seed

Sleep, Pale Sister

Chocolat

Blackberry Wine

Five Quarters Of The Orange

Coastliners

Holy Fools

Jigs & Reels

Gentlemen & Players

The Lollipop Shoes

Blueeyedboy

Peaches For Monsieur Le Curé

Runemarks

Runelight

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The French Kitchen: A Cookbook