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A welcome return to the village in rural France that was the setting for Joanne Harriss remarkable and much-loved number one bestseller Chocolat. It isnt often you receive a letter from the dead. When Vianne Rocher receives a letter from beyond the grave, she has no choice but to follow the wind that blows her back to Lansquenet, the village in south-west France where, eight years ago, she opened up a chocolate shop. But Vianne is completely unprepared for what she finds there. Women veiled in black, the scent of spices and peppermint tea, and there, on the bank of the river Tannes, facing the square little tower of the church of Saint-Jerme like a piece on a chessboard slender, bone-white and crowned with a silver crescent moon a minaret. Nor is it only the incomers from North Africa that have brought big changes to the community. Father Reynaud, Viannes erstwhile adversary, is now disgraced and under threat. Could it be that Vianne is the only one who can save him