BONUS: Joanne Harris on Chocolat
Sentimental Garbage
Justice for Dumb Women
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Joanne Harris has been talking about Chocolat for literally 20 years, which is why we're so flattered she came and talked to us even MORE about it. We talk about motherhood, magic, giving advice to writers, how to use research in your writing and the experience of being an "overnight success".
Music by Harry Harris, artwork by Gavin Day. Recorded at Acast and produced by Hannah Varrall.
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| 0:16.0 | Hi and welcome to the bonus episode of Sentimental Garbage. I spoke to Joanne |
| 0:27.1 | Harris on the phone for a little bit about magic, women, the church, France and also |
| 0:32.3 | how you can convert really hard research into something |
| 0:35.0 | that people actually want to read. |
| 0:38.6 | So you wrote with two books before Shoccola? Yes, there were two books before Shocola? Yes there were two. And then Shocola comes along and it's just this |
| 0:47.2 | monster success and I'm sure you've been asked to like go over this many times over the year |
| 0:52.0 | but what was that like to have released |
| 0:55.8 | two books to sort of you know the average kind of a claim that books not the average |
| 1:01.1 | but there is no average but do I mean like the very realistic |
| 1:04.0 | applause that that most books get which is that some people like it some people don't |
| 1:08.2 | da da da it's all very normal and then to have this monster hit. What was that like? |
| 1:13.3 | Well, it was a big surprise because, you know, |
| 1:16.6 | Shockley was everything that I'd been told that I shouldn't be writing |
| 1:19.4 | and I wrote it anyway. |
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