Blackberry Wine
First edition cover | |
| Author | Joanne Harris |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Stuart Haygarth |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Magic Realism |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
Publication date | 1 May 2000 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 386 |
| ISBN | 9780385600590 |
| OCLC | 60667909 |
| Preceded by | Chocolat |
| Followed by | Five quarters of the orange |
Blackberry wine is a magical realism novel by Joanne Harris, published in 2000. This story, which is narrated by a vintage bottle of wine, uses her typical split-narrative technique and follows two separate timelines. One is set in Yorkshire, and follows several formative events in the adolescence of Jay Mackintosh, as he meets Joe Cox, the man who is to become the main influence of his life and literary career. The other, which continues in the present day, is set in the fictional village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes, the setting of Harris' previous book, Chocolat, and follows Jay's attempts to recapture the magic of those early years, and cure his writer's block.
It also exists as an audiobook, narrated by the author.