Just as in Chocolat, the power of chocolate, as a symbol for love and tolerance, is shown again in The Lollipop Shoes.

The real mother and daughter bond which is supposed to save the two main protagonists doesn’t seem like much, because it is never truly gone in the novel. She lives in Yorkshire, plays bass and flute in a band first formed when she was sixteen, and works in a shed in her garden.The Lollipop Shoes is highly recommended and best read accompanied by bars of high quality dark chocolate, mugs of chocolate, death by chocolate (cake) or anything else made with high quality chocolate. Jeane-Loup miraculously figures out the mystery regarding Zozie, a teenage boy, as opposed to a learned witch. In 2000, her 1999 novel CHOCOLAT was adapted to the screen, starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a US Armed Forces icon and one of the world's top endurance athletes.

And no, the people surrounding Vianne do NOT find it to be the norm (that would be magical realism). I would always invite someone to make up their own mind about a book but this really didn't cut it for me. There might one day be something else about Vianne Rocher and her daughter Anouk, but I had a feeling they weren’t in Lansquenet any more, and I had no idea of where else to start looking for them.As Christmas approaches, Zozie’s agenda becomes clear: she means to steal Vianne’s identity, her life and her daughter Anouk. A misfit and a loner at school, she hates Paris, resents the “new” Vianne, and desperately misses the intimacy they once had together. If Chocolat was Dark Chocolate with a creamy milk chocolate filling then The Girl with No Shadow is a Dark Chocolate truffle with a smooth creamy finish. For those of you who "know' me, you'll know I'm INTJ, which means I'll fixate on little details more than most people. Cloaked in a new identity, that of widow Yanne Charbonneau, she opens a chocolaterie on a small Montmartre street, determined to still the wind at last and keep her daughters, Anouk and baby Rosette, safe.