Joanne Harris has written eleven novels including Chocolat (made into an Oscar-nominated film with Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp) and Lollipop Shoes. She was awarded an MBE and lives in Yorkshire.
'Then she said: "You want his heart? Then go to the fairy tree at Samhain, on the night when all the dead are awake, and cut yourself a nice big piece out of the living heart of the tree."'