‘This isn’t a mid-life crisis OK? For a start I’m not old enough yet to have one of those. I’m calling it a happiness project. I’ve stolen an entire summer from my life and by the time it’s over...

Kat has never wanted to live a small life. She’s an adventurer, a food writer who travels the world visiting far-flung places and eating unusual things. Now she is about to embark on her biggest adventure yet – a...

Three generations and the kitchen that binds them. Young Maria, content in her Mother’s kitchen, nevertheless seeks excitement and heads off to the city lights, only to return pregnant. Chiara, her daughter and Maria head off to England in...

Pieta Martinelli’s sister is getting married. Since she is a bridal designer it falls to her to make the wedding gown. But Pieta is distracted by a series of unanswered questions. Why is her father feuding with another Italian...

Rome in the 1950s, there’s nowhere quite like it. The narrow stone streets, the fountains and piazzas full of life in the heat of the day, the cafes and bars full of music and desire by night… This is...

THE VILLA GIRLS is the story of four young women who decide that wherever they are in the world and whatever they’re doing they’ll meet every few years for a holiday together somewhere sunny. Despite life taking them in...

For sale: historic building in the picturesque town of Montenello, southern Italy. Asking price: 1 Euro Cloudless skies, sun-soaked countryside, delicious food… In the drowsy heat of an Italian summer, four strangers arrive in a beautiful town nestled in...

Wish you were here? When Belle’s quiet, idyllic life on the coast starts to crumble, it’s a stranger – thousands of miles away in Italy – who provides a shoulder to cry on. And so, when Enrico sends her...

In the sun-drenched Sicilian hills, four women learn the lessons of a lifetime at the Food of Love Cookery School. In a remote Sicilian mountain town, four women arrive at a cookery school, each at a turning point in...