If Harris's previous novel, Chocolat, was an adorably sweet morsel of French village lore, then this, her third, is a richer, more complex dessert wine. Still using her arsenal of culinary metaphors, ...

When I was a child, someone told me: ‘Every life is a story.’ I used to wonder what mine would be like; what adventures I would have. My favourite stories were from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, ...