Peaches for Father Francis by Joanne Harris is a continuation of Chocolate, the Story of Vianne Rocher as she returns eight years later to the little French village of Lansquenet, where she had a chocolate shop and fell in love with a gypsy named Roux (played by Johnny Depp in the movie Chocolate.)
I love this story and the way Harris brings the sights sounds and smells of a place to life, especially through the use of food in her novels. Much has changed in Lansquenet in the years Vianne has been away, and she returns to find a new community of Muslims settled there, at odds with the Catholics in town. Mostly it stems from one mysterious woman who wears the veil at all times, and has a devastating effect on the community.
However, all is not as it appears to be, and with insight and a little bit of magic, Vianne begins to uncover what is really going on. A wonderful continuation of the story that left me only wanting more.
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