![]() I think if I had hated it and I had said so they wouldn't necessarily have done anything about it. ![]() So I wasn't disappointed - I wasn't consulted either except in a kind of courtesy way. I thought that the changes were quite minor and were really in the spirit of making it a better film. I understand that when a book gets optioned you basically abnegate all responsibility for it and if it is awful and they decide to set it in space - that is just your lookout and you still get paid. Many News Online readers loved both the film and the book Chocolat but lots of them including Dominique Malaragni in Edinburgh and Colin Edmundson in Australia, ask whether you were unhappy with the changes and were you consulted on them? To listen to coverage of the forum, select the link below: She answered a selection of your questions in a forum. What plans does she have for the future? Why do her novels have a food or drink theme? ![]() Why did she decide to start writing novels? What inspires her? What has been her favourite book to date? The 36-year-old author is half-French and was still a teacher at Leeds Grammar School when she hit the big time with Chocolat in 1999. Set in occupied France, it is a story of a successful woman whose profiteering nephew threatens to expose her hidden past. Her new book Five Quarters of Orange is released in the UK in April. Author Joanne Harris loves chocolate to such an extent that she decided to write a book about it.Ĭhocolat became an international best-seller and has recently been made into a Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche.
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