Chocolat author Joanne Harris on Broken Light: menopausal rage at The Trouble Club

Joanne Harris is a tour de force in the literary world. Having published over 20 novels, including the best-selling Chocolat, she’s now releasing Broken Light which explores how women can feel invisible as they grow older - and what happens when they decide to take back control...
Harris tells the The Trouble Club that not being believed about her pain inspired her character in her new book.
EXTRACT: "Bernie Moon has given her life to other people: her husband, her son, her friends (who are these days, mostly online). At nineteen she was full of dreams and ambitions; now almost fifty, and going through the menopause, she's fading, fast. Heartbroken and hormonal, she often feels like she's losing her mind.
"But when a young woman is murdered in a local park, it sparks a series of childhood memories in Bernie and with them, a talent that has lain dormant most of her adult life.
"She promised herself she'd never think of it again. When she was a teenager, it almost destroyed her. But now she's older, could it be the power she's been missing?
"Could it be the chance to, finally, make them look?"
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