Full name: Extra Virgin: A Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera, Where Every Month Is Enchanted

Author: Annie Hawes Year: 2000 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Travel, Non Fiction, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780140294231 0140294236

A small stone house deep among the olive groves of Liguria, going for the price of a dodgy second-hand car. Annie Hawes and her sister, on the spot by chance, have no plans whatsoever to move to the Italian Riviera but find naturally that it's an offer they can't refuse. The laugh is on the Foreign Females who discover that here amongst the hardcore olive farming folk their incompetence is positively alarming. Not to worry: the thrifty villagers of Diano San Pietro are on the case, and soon plying the Pallid Sisters with advice, ridicule, tall tales and copious hillside refreshments ... Similar books: An Italian Education by Tim Parks Journey to the South by Annie Hawes Italian Neighbours by Tim Parks Pasquale's Nose by Michael Rips Italian Days by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison The Reluctant Tuscan by Phil Doran The Lady in the Palazzo by Marlena de Blasi Stolen Figs by Mark Rotella A Small Place in Italy by Eric Newby Vanilla Beans & Brodo by Isabella Dusi The Hills of Tuscany by Ferenc Mate As the Romans Do by Alan Epstein Too Much Tuscan Sun by Dario Castagno Ripe for the Picking by Annie Hawes A Valley in Italy by Lisa St. Aubin De Teran Hiking Through by Paul Stutzman Dispatches from Pluto by Richard Grant A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter At Home in the World by Tsh Oxenreider The Tenth Island by Diana Marcum