Truth Behind Five Quarters of the Orange

Well, the book Five Quarters of the Orange has really begun to twist around a lot!  I have been so intrigued by this novel!  I cannot seem to want to put it down, although I have had to discipline myself due to having a lot of other homework...  Anyway, I would like to begin with the discussing the title of the book.  Mirabelle Dartigen, Framboise's mother, was a very stern woman and did not show very much love toward her three children.  Mirabelle suffered from very intense migraines throughout her adulthood and they worsened after her husband was killed in the war.  These migraines seemed to stem from out of nowhere except she always smelled oranges before they came on...  This was a strange occurrence for there were never any oranges around when she seemed to smell them!  However, this worked to Framboise's advantage one day when she longed to venture into town with her siblings.  Framboise really wanted to explore town and see a cinema and just have some fun with the siblings she had become so distant with over the past few years of them venturing off to college.  She did not like that they had separate lives that she was not apart of, so when the opportunity to go to town with them arose she did everything she could to make it happen.  Framboise had taken an orange and put it under the oven so its scent would fill the house and give her mother the feeling that a migraine was coming on.  This had worked and Mirabelle had gone to bed early and slept into the day they wanted to go to town.  


Now, the reason why Framboise had to change her name when she was an elderly woman going back to live in her hometown was because she was associated with the murder of a German soldier.  This soldiers name was, Tomas Leibniz.  His role in this book was as a soldier stationed in the town of Les Laveuses who had seen Framboise steal the orange that she used against her mother.  After this had happened Tomas seeked out Framboise and had begun to get to know her.  He used his manipulation skills to get information of out Framboise and her two siblings about the different people living in the town.  Tomas would trade little items of value with the kids for information.  However, this did not end well...  Although his agenda did not have to do with that of the other stationed soldiers it still caused havoc among the town.  
Overall, this book was really great and had my interest the whole time!  I would really like to read other books written by Joanne Harris!!  Also, if I didn't already mention in class, this book made me really hungry while I read it because there is so much written about food!  Everything within the album that Mirabelle left for Framboise sounded delicious and I would really enjoy trying out some of the recipes that were described throughout the book!