Luckily, Ms Harris must have realized this and only seldom came back to the bottles speaking for themselves. Therefore, it struck me as being a mechanic that was trying too hard to be clever. You will also notice that the wines are unable to get into the minds and/or bodies of anyone besides the protagonist (Jay), except after someone had consumed some of the bottle’s contents. As clever as this may seem, we should remember we are not bottles of wine. This made me assume this book was supposed to be totally from this viewpoint, but actually, this was just a ruse for the author to write in a third person omnipresent voice. It begins with the first chapter told from the point of view of a bottle of wine – a Fleurie, 1962 to be precise. To be honest, I must confess my mixed first impressions of this book. Suddenly, inspiration catches him and he impulsively buys a house in some no-where town in France, determined to get back his muse. It’s now 1999, however, and he hasn’t written anything serious since – only junk novels under an assumed name. Jay Mackintosh is a writer whose first hit novel “Jackapple Joe” revolved around a man he met as a boy in the late 70s in Pog Hill an ex-mining town in England. Book Review of “ Blackberry Wine” by Joanne Harris.
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