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- Paperback
384 pages
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13 August 2013
Summary
Italy, 1964. Maria Domenica is the eldest daughter in the Carrozza family from the tiny southern village of San Giulio. At 16, Maria’s life is limited to the confines of her mother’s rural kitchen (where she bakes bread every morning, the way the Carrozza women always have), and the Caffe Angeli, a place of friendship, strong espresso and famous ricotta sfolgliatelle. Her parents have high hopes for their beautiful first-born, but she has other plans.
Maria runs away to Rome but, a ye…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781409147794 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1409147797 |
| Author: | Nicky Pellegrino |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Orion |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 13 August 2013 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 26mm |
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Pellegrino takes us from 1960s Italy and Liverpool to 21st-century London, as Maria’s story becomes Chiara’s against a backdrop of family ties, food and secrets.
Full-bodied as a rich Italian red, it’s a page-turner combining the missed chances of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin with the foodie pleasures of Chocolat. A warming read for a winter’s night. * EVE MAGAZINE *Pellegrino takes us from 1960s Italy and Liverpool to 21st-century London, as Maria’s story becomes Chiara’s against a backdrop of family ties, food and secrets. * GOOD BOOK GUIDE *If you like your stories on the sensuous side, this debut novel is for you. * GLAMOUR *A tale of love, families, their foibles - and food * WOMAN *An enjoyable and well-written story * TELEGRAPH & ARGUS *
About The Author
Nicky Pellegrino
Nicky Pellegrino’s Italian father came to England where he married a Liverpool girl. He brought to his new family his passion for food and instilled in them what all Italians know - that you live to eat instead of eating to live. This Italian mantra is the inspiration behind Nicky’s novels. Every summer the family left their home in Merseyside and returned to her father’s home town, near Naples, in southern Italy. Nicky married a New Zealander and moved to Auckland where she works as a journalist and edits a woman’s magazine. She hoards her annual leave so that she and her husband can return to Italy to meet up with her family and to eat the best mozzarella and research her books.
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