![]() ![]() ![]() I'm relieved it happened that way, because if I had been able to foresee the success of Chocolat I might well have ended up like Jay, completely frozen by his own achievement and unable to write anything serious again. I finished Blackberry Wine before the publication of Chocolat. ![]() Under its influence, time can work backwards and the dead return to life - as Jay finds, when, on impulse, he gives up his glamorous London lifestyle and escapes to a half-derelict farmhouse in a remote village in Gascony, where two mysteries await him a ghost from the past whom no-one else can see, and Marise, a reclusive widow with ghosts of her own. ![]() For there is something magical about this wine something which brings the past to life, an agent of transformation. Trapped between an unresolved past and a humdrum present, suffering from writer's block and the beginnings of alcoholism, Jay has lost his bearings.īut the accidental discovery of six bottles of home-brewed wine, a legacy from an old and vanished friend, seems to hold the key to a new beginning, a means of escape, and a final reconciliation. These are the questions which began Blackberry Wine: the second volume of my "food trilogy" and the story of Jay Mackintosh, a writer of pulp fiction with one literary success to his name and a dwindling grasp of reality. What if you could bottle a year of your past? Which one would it be? Which time of year? What would it smell like? How would it taste? ![]()
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