Hello, I am from Bulgaria and I adore every book I read from you. The last book I read was "Five Quarters of the Orange", I was wondering, what exactly was Tomas Leibniz feeling towards Framboise ? Was it a brotherly love, or maybe he just saw her more special then her borther and sister, or he was just using her for information ? Thank you!

Joanne Harris I think Tomas is an opportunist. Not a really bad guy, but a guy who thinks of himself first and foremost, and does not consider the consequences to others. He's quite fond of Framboise in his way (maybe he has a little sister at home), but what he really wants is to use her (and the other kids for his own ends), and the way to do that is to make every one of them feel that he or she is special to him. It's his way of getting them to be loyal to him, much as Fagin's little group of pickpockets in OLIVER TWIST think that Fagin is on their side...

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