Hello, welcome along to this week's writer's routine, chatting with Joanne Harris MBE.

She tends to write magical realism.

But as you'll hear, she doesn't really concern herself with genre at all.

Now, her book,

Chocolat, shot her to fame, sold immensely and was turned into a movie with Johnny Depp and Juliet Benosh. So we talk about that and how much that has affected the rest of her writing

and how it gave her quite a lot of freedom, but also quite a lot of anxiety.

We talk about sense, about shelved screenplays, and what she's learned about where writing happens.

You know, most writing doesn't happen at a desk or a keyboard.

Most writing happens in your head when you're doing other things.

And I learned this when I was still

teaching, you know, I learnt that most of my best ideas and my best dialogues and my best

moments came to me when I was in the car driving or when I was going about various pieces of

daily business. And I just wrote them up afterwards. And that still happens.

More on the way with Joe Harris in this week's Writers' Routine.

Yes, welcome to the show.

My name's Dan, this is Writers Routine,

where we take a look inside some of the world's best authors working day.

This week chatting to Joanne Harris. Her books have been published in over 50 countries.

She's won an incredible amount of awards. In 2013, she was awarded an MBA. She's currently

chair of the Society of Authors. Now, she's best known for her Chocolat,

and her new one is called A Narrow Door. It's all about a school that hires a headmistress for

the first time ever, who then finds the remains of a body in the grounds. It's magical

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