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Extra Virgin: A Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera, Where Every Month Is Enchanted
Extra Virgin A Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera Where Every Month Is Enchanted
Author: Annie Hawes
Extra Virgin introduces a major new voice in this delicious tale of two sisters who find unexpected joy in the isolated village of Diano San Pietro, Italy. — How could anyone leave such a lovely place to go to rack and ruin? It looks as if no one has ever been near it for decades, its land's untended and its olive trees unkempt.  ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780060198503
ISBN-10: 0060198508
Publication Date: 1/1/2001
Pages: 352
Rating:
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4 stars, based on 6 ratings
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette
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heartinthehighlands avatar reviewed Extra Virgin: A Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera, Where Every Month Is Enchanted on + 54 more book reviews
i totally enjoyed this book. i love listening to books as i do other things, and this was perfect for that. it is so much fun to hear about other people who have had the adventure of going abroad and actually buying a place and fixing it up to live there. it's interesting and humorous and true. i also really liked the narrator's voice. this is 6 hours on 4 cassettes and is abridged.
qualitybookswap avatar reviewed Extra Virgin: A Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera, Where Every Month Is Enchanted on + 8 more book reviews
I came across this audiobook quite by accident (on Paperbackswap) and thank goodness for that accident. It is a most delightful audiobook. The story is easy to love and funny. The narrator does a wonderful job telling the story.

Set in the eighties, it's a well written fun story of two sisters from England who go to Liguria, Italy and fall in love with it and buy a home. Wholesome and quite fun. The characters are likeable and believeable. It's really a wonderful audiobook with some interesting and often funny cultural insights. Pretty lighthearted and feel good.

It is not a romance story, to my great relief, as I thought it might be. Except the "romance" between the women and the land and the culture.

I truly loved it.
reviewed Extra Virgin: A Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera, Where Every Month Is Enchanted on + 47 more book reviews
I absolutely loved this story. I lived in Italy during the time it was written, and that made it even more enjoyable. (I must confess that it made my treadmill time much easier too--actually looked forward to it!)
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Loved this book! Allowed me to visit Liguria again where cappucino in the afternoon is only for tourists.
buzzby avatar reviewed Extra Virgin: A Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera, Where Every Month Is Enchanted on + 6062 more book reviews
Sequel is "Ripe for the Picking"


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