Five Quarters Of The Orange by Joanne Harris

Beyond the main street of Les Laveuses runs the Loire: smooth and brown as a sunning snake – but hiding a deadly undertow beneath its moving surface. This is where Framboise, a secretive widow, plies her culinary trade at the crêperie – and lets her memory play strange games.

As her nephew attempts to exploit the growing success of the country recipes Framboise has inherited from her mother – a woman remembered with contempt by the villagers – memories of a disturbed childhood during the German Occupation flood back, and expose a past full of betrayal, blackmail and lies…