Harris resisted for years the idea of writing a sequel. Hollywood, of course, turned Chocolat into an Oscar-nominated film starring French gamine Juliette Binoche and American expat gypsy Johnny Depp. It's very funny to watch that."Ĭlearly, life has turned a page or two for the Cambridge-educated, half-French, half-British novelist whose upbringing in her grandparents' Yorkshire sweetshop inspired the magical world of rebellious chocolatier Vianne Rocher, her young daughter Anouk and her river-gypsy boyfriend Roux. We like to get groups of arrogant young male newbies who are totally humiliated by the idea that they've just been creamed by somebody's mum or by a little girl. "I'm not bad and she's pretty good, too small people are frequently at an advantage because they get the angles. "It's quite fun and terribly therapeutic," Harris admits. Armed with laser rifles, they prowl the strobe-lighted darkness of their local Laser Quest facility in West Yorkshire, England, to deafening rock music, searching for easy prey. On Monday evenings, Chocolat author Joanne Harris and her 14-year-old daughter Anouchka like to shoot teen-agers.
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