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Joanne Harris was born in Yorkshire in 1964, the daughter of a French mother and an English father. She was a French teacher at a boys’ grammar school in Leeds when her first novel, The Evil Seed, was published in 1989. Since then she has written Sleep, Pale Sister, the Whitbread-shortlist Chocolat (now a major film starring Johnny Depp), Blackberry Wine, Five Quarters of the Orange, Coastliners and Holy Fools. She has also written a cookery book, The French Kitchen, with Fran Warde. Her first collections of short stories, Jigs and Reels, has just been published. Joanne gave up teaching four years ago to write full-time and lives with her husband and daughter in Yorkshire.
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An unhappy marriage, a lonely woman, and a very unusual love affair – with a tree. But is the woman mad, or misunderstood, and what happens when her husband realises something is wrong?
Find out who has made the shortlist for Joanne Harris' story here.
Please note: the deadline for receiving entries has now passed, but you can still download and read the stories.
Download Dryad by Joanne Harris
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