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I was nostalgic for a reading experience that allowed me to believe there was still the possibility for magic shimmering within the real world. When I discovered Chocolat as a teenager, it satisfied a craving in me that had lingered from childhood. Now, 20 years later, The Strawberry Thief, the fourth book in the Chocolat series, offers fans another opportunity to luxuriate in Harris’s seductive storytelling. The film adaptation that followed a year later, starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp, introduced even more people to the magical world of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes, the French village where we meet the charming and charmed protagonist, Vianne Rocher, of the magical chocolatier. When Joanne Harris published Chocolat in 1999, it became a global literary phenomenon that sold more than a million copies in the UK and Ireland alone. Some of us are just more different than others.” – The Strawberry Thief