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  • Published: 10 December 2009
  • ISBN: 9781407055381
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 12 hr 45 min
  • Narrator: Anne Dover
  • RRP: $24.99

Holy Fools

a thrilling historical mystery from Joanne Harris, the bestselling author of Chocolat




Set in 17th-century France against a backdrop of witch trials, regicide and religious frenzy, this is the story of Juliette, a travelling actress and rope-dancer

Forced by circumstance to seek refuge with Fleur, her young daughter, in the remote abbey of Saint Marie-de-la-Mer, Juliette reinvents herself as Soeur Auguste under the tutelage of the kindly Abbess. But times are changing: the murder of Henri IV becomes the catalyst for massive upheaval in France. A new appointment is made, and Juliette's new life begins to unravel. For the new Abbess is Isabelle, the eleven-year-old child of a corrupt and noble family. Worse, Isabelle has brought with her a ghost from Juliette's past, masquerading as a cleric, a man she has every reason to fear...

  • Published: 10 December 2009
  • ISBN: 9781407055381
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 12 hr 45 min
  • Narrator: Anne Dover
  • RRP: $24.99

About the author

Joanne Harris

Joanne Harris’s Whitbread-shortlisted Chocolat was made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. She is the author of many other bestselling novels, including Lollipop Shoes and Peaches for Monsieur le Curé, both also featuring Vianne Rocher, as is her new novel The Strawberry Thief. She has also written acclaimed novels in such diverse genres as fantasy based on Norse myth (Runemarks, Runelight, The Gospel of Loki), and the Malbry cycle of dark psychological thrillers (Gentlemen & Players, Blueeyedboy, and Different Class).

Born in Barnsley, of an English father and a French mother, she spent fifteen years as a teacher before (somewhat reluctantly) becoming a full-time writer. In 2013, she was awarded an MBE. She lives in Yorkshire, plays bass and flute in a band first formed when she was sixteen, and works in a shed in her garden.

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