Blackberry Wine
Author: Joanne Harris
Desc: Jay Mackintosh is trapped by memory in the old familiar landscape of his childhood more enticing than the present and to which he longs to return. A bottle of home-brewed wine left to him by a long vanished friend seems to provide both the key to an old mystery and a doorway into another world. As the unusual properties of the strange brew takes effect Jay escapes to a derelict farmhouse in the French village of Lansquenet where a ghost from the past waits to confront him and the reclusive Marise -haunted lovely and dangerous- hides a terrible secret behind her closed shuters. Between them a mysterious chemistry. Or could it be magic?