Long before Joanne Harris was awarded an OBE for services to literature, the author of Chocolat, The Gospel Of Loki, Runemarks and other novels was playing flute in a prog band she started at school. In 2018 she looked back on how Genesis, Pink Floyd and others had influenced her.
“Music links you back to the past like nothing else, and prog takes me to Barnsley in the 80s. My mother was French so there was a great deal of chansonnier – Jacques Brel and that kind of thing. My grandfather was a big influence; he was classical through and through. I became a classically-trained flautist.
