Okay, I'll stop.
I did enjoy this novel about Vianne Rocher, a mysterious young single mother and her little daughter Anouk (and Anouk's best friend, an invisible rabbit named Pantoufle).
They arrive in a small French village named Lansquenet. There, Vianne opens an enchanting little chocolate shop and is almost immediately an outcast as the people of the village are very traditional, tight, religious people who follow Father Reynaud teachings of self denial. Reynaud is furious that a shop such as this could open in his village and he preaches to his parishioners to avoid her wicked ways.
Meanwhile, Vianne and Anouk manage to befriend a few village characters with their endearing magic, many outcasts like themselves, as well as a few of the river gypsies who visit the village occasionally to restock. Vianne and her daughter who have mostly lived a nomadic life, decide that they like this little village and try to make a home there with their new friends, but Reynaud and his followers plan to make that very difficult.
A TASTY story with lots of FLAVOR.
Okay, I lied.
Also made into a lovely movie starring Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench and Johnny Depp.
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