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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
In 1983, a pale Annie Hawes and her equally pale sister leave England for the sun-drenched olive groves of a small Italian town in Liguria. With fantasies of handsome men and swimming in the sea urging them on, they sign up to graft roses -- something they know nothing about -- but they figure they can fake it for ten weeks. What they don't coun...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780694524075
ISBN-10: 0694524077
Publication Date: 1/1/2001
Edition: Abridged
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4 stars, based on 7 ratings
Publisher: HarperAudio
Book Type: Audio Cassette
Other Versions: Paperback, Hardcover
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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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