Bestseller Harris (Holy Fools, Chocolat) exposes the brittle line dividing the haves and have-nots in Gentlemen and Players, a morality tale set in the hallowed halls of St. Oswald's, an aristocratic British boys' school hovering on the edge of extinction.
Bio
Joanne Michèle Sylvie Harris
Joanne Harris was born in Barnsley in 1964, of a French mother and an English father. She studied Modern and Mediaeval Languages at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge and was a teacher for fifteen years, during which time she published three novels; The Evil Seed (1989), Sleep, Pale Sister (1993) and Chocolat (1999), which was made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp.
The statement Joanne Harris made in chapter 13 about villians seem to be very important for her book. If you think about it, a good villian will keep the audience interested in the book, or the film.