She was strongly influenced by Grimms' Fairy Tales and Charles Perrault's work, as well as local folklore and Norse mythology. Both families had turbulent histories and a tradition of strong women, kitchen gardening, storytelling, folklore and cookery.
Her first language was French, which caused divisions between her English family, where nobody spoke French, and her French family, where nobody spoke English. Both of her parents were teachers of modern languages and literature at a local grammar school.
Harris was born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, to an English father and a French mother. Joanne Michèle Sylvie Harris OBE FRSL (born 3 July 1964) is an English-French author, best known for her novel Chocolat (1999), which was adapted the following year for the film Chocolat. Recorded December 2011 from the BBC Radio 4 programme Woman's Hour
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