Psychological thriller set in Berlin
Olive Virgins
Location(s): Greece
Genre(s): Humour
Era(s): Modern
Quentin and Deirdre eagerly embark on their first olive harvest under the critical eye of the carping old crone next door and the unwanted attentions of her parrot. Mail order Masha has achieved silicone fame in her glamorous new job as a weather girl and Stavroula has to cook up an impressive foreign Christmas dinner in her audition for the cooking show. Bald Yannis suffers a butt full of pellets and Soula discovers her father has been hiding a body in the deep freeze.
On a stormy night when the fisherman are brawling Nitsa bags herself a moustached suitor, before helping Fotini cook up a curse to rid the village of the superstitious peasant Katerina. The Pappas has a novice trainee to boss around; Thea’s cat is traumatised by the antics of Toothless Tasos; and gossip about the paternity of the side-burned baby blows up at the baptism.
The humorous antics of life in the fictional Greek village of Astakos continue in this laugh-out-loud sequel to Goat In The Meze and Rampaging Roosters.
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