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GIVEAWAY – 3 copies of This Changes Everything : ROME
20th June 2021
We are delighted to offer 3 copies of “This Changes Everything” by Helen McGinn, novel set largely in ROME.
Sisters Annie and Jess are used to their mother Julia being spontaneous. But when Julia announces she’s flying off to Rome to meet her first love Patrick, whom she hasn’t seen for fifty years, it’s an adventure too far. So, her daughters decide the only way to keep Julia safe, is to go too – without actually telling their mother she has chaperones!
Julia and Patrick’s love story was everything – epic, once-in-a-lifetime, with a tragic ending and life-long consequences. First love is hard to forget, but sometimes, just sometimes, life delivers a chance to rewrite your story.
As the eternal city of Rome works its magic, old secrets, old friends and old loves become new possibilities and new dreams. And when the four travellers return home, nothing will ever be the same again.
Join Helen McGinn for a timeless, joyous, unforgettable journey through love, family, and long-forgotten dreams. A novel to hold to your heart and treasure, perfect for fans of Elizabeth Noble, Cathy Kelly and JoJo Moyes.
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The novel is set in Rome and I have loved learning a little Italian over the last 18 months – it’s been hard work but quite rewarding! And very useful when eventually I get to Italy again. So. Here’s the question for this week: Which language, money and time and talent no object, would you love to learn and why? Tell us in the comments below and the first three names chosen at random will be sent a copy. Enter by Saturday 3rd July and this giveaway is UK ONLY,
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The winners are:
jeanniev1
VJ Feefeecat
Hayley Cox
Chinese – because it is so difficult!
I would like to learn how to speak Italian – I would love to visit Italy one day after all the stories my Mum told me when I was young about her travels there and being able to speak the language would be amazing!
I’ve started trying to learn a little korean. I love the language and I a fan of their tv dramas and music.
Spanish. I would love to live there one day.
Would love to read this book
I’d like to learn Manx because it’s the language my ancestors used.
id like to learn one of the asian languages such as urdo as we have so many people in our country with a different first language I’d like to be able to speak one too.
Even before this competition I wanted to go to Italy and for that I would need to learn Italian
I have a limited knowledge of Italian and would love to learn it to become bilingual and be able to read Italian literature in Italian
I would love to be able to speak Polish I know lots of polish people and would love to be able to understand what they are saying.
I’d love to learn Japanese. Such a fascinating language and would mean I would understand anime.
I’d love to speak French fluently. I took it for O Level in the 1960s but back then the emphasis was on reading and writing the language .and conjugating verbs, I hated it. We rarely spoke it. We have spent many happy summers in Brittany and I know enough to get by but not hold a proper conversation
I’d love to learn Spanish, my husband & I are working hard to try and buy a small property in southern Spain where we can spend winters during our retirement
I would love to learn Italian, I know the basics and understand quite a bit but to be able to speak it fluently would be great
Spanish, as it’s such a widely used language.
Italian because I love Italy.
Spanish – such a universal language and helpful for holidays in so many places!
chinese! i just lvoe how the language sounds!
German for travelling through Europe
Portuguese. We love to go on holiday to Madeira and would love to be able to speak the language.
I would love to learn Japanese having visited and experienced the beauty of the small area I toured through. We were made so welcome I was embarrassed at only being able to say ‘hello’, ‘thankyou’ and ‘please’. Hoping to return one day and would be delighted to talk more to the locals.
I’d love to learn Italian, to make up for how very little I knew when I went on honeymoon to Italy many years ago. It’s such a beautiful, exuberant language & it would be wonderful to converse with locals, who are such amazing characters!
Welsh! I would love to be able to speak Welsh, because it’s a very lyrical, beautiful language.
I would love to learn Greek Greece is my favourite country it’s a beautiful place to visit and the locals are so friendly
I’d love to learn chinese, it’s SO HARD though!
Hungarian
French, I have never been good at languages, but maybe I’ll use french
Would love to Speak Italian
Italian would be my first choice. I just love how the language sounds.
French because my parents are now living out there!
I’d love to learn how to speak Japanese. Unfortunately i don’t have the memory to learn a new language.
I would love to learn Spanish as it would be useful in so many different countries.
I’d love to learn Spanish so when Im on holiday I can speak the to locals
Chinese. I’d love to be able to understand what they are really saying.
I would love to learn latin. No particular reason why, I just always thought it sounded cool. If money, time and skill were no object, I would love to learn multiple languages.
Currently I’m learning Spanish and really enjoying it.
Would love to speak Spanish so I could visit my brother and chat with the locals
Latin, as it the origin of most English words
Japanese – I’d love to go to Japan one day and it would be great to know the language
Spanish – I started to learn it years ago but gave up so would love to try again
Japanese. I loved Japan so much and it would have been nice to be able to say more than ‘hello’ and ‘thank you’!
Italian – I have Italian heritage but the language was never passed down
Greek – the language of love and heritage
Greek. I love the islands but I never seem to recall more than a few polite words no matter how I try..and nothing as exotic as Greek classes in my little corner of Wales!
Hello, I would really like to learn Arabic. I think it is such a beautiful language and I would love to be able to speak it.
French because some of my family live there and it would be so useful to be able to speak the lingo when we visit – when we are allowed to visit again!!
Italian! It is such a romantic language and I am hoping to travel to Pisa, Florence, Siena and Chianti later this year for a delayed 60th birthday trip!
Spanish! My mam did a spanish degree and spent a year living in Madrid, so I’d love to be able to speak to her in spanish.
Turkish
I’d like to learn Portuguese as I am planning to move there later this year and write full time!
I enjoyed learning German and got a GCSE it in. I found it easier than French and wish I had carried on learning it so that I could skim a newspaper or magazine article and get the gist of it etc. For no particular reason other than my own satisfaction.
I would love to be able to speak French as we are planning our move to the country for later this year!
I already speak fluent Spanish so I would love to learn to speak Japanese just to be totally different and I would love to visit there one day ❤️
Latin – started it at school and loved it but it wasn’t offered on the curriculum any further.
I’d love to learn Spanish. My son in law’s lovely parents are Panamanian, and although they speak pretty good English I would love to be able to talk to them in their own language
I would love to “brush up” on my schoolgirl French – my best friend lives in France and it would be great to be able to converse with her children and friends.
Spanish as my granddaughter lives in Peru and they speak Spanish there.
I’d love to learn Spanish in the hope of a sunny holiday x
Maltese, so I could understand my husband’s family’s posts on Facebook. After 50+ years of marriage I still know only a few words.
I’d love to learn Welsh. I’ve lived in North Wales for 32 years but I still haven’t fully grasped the language.
I would love to learn German. I did try teaching myself years ago but lacked dedication. Mainly as my mother is German.
Portuguese because I love to holiday there
I’d learn Greek as my son has moved to Cyprus x
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Would love to speak Spanish. We seem to go to Spain a lot and I would feel a lot more part of the scene if I could speak the language.