Blackberry Wine

As a boy writer Jay Mackintosh spent three golden summers in the ramshackle home of Jackapple Joe Cox. A lonely child he found solace in Old Joe''s simple wisdom and folk charms. The magic was lost however when Joe disappeared without warning one fall.Years later Jay''s life is stalled with regret and ennui. His bestselling novel Jackapple Joe was published ten years earlier and he has written nothing since. Impulsively he decides to leave his urban life in London and sight unseen purchases a farmhouse in the remote French village of Lansquenet. There in that strange and yet strangely familiar place Jay hopes to re-create the magic of those golden childhood summers. And while the spirit of Joe is calling to him it is actually a similarly haunted reclusive woman who will ultimately help Jay find himself again.