Blogs in April 2015

The Umbrian Thursday Night Supper club 15th April 2015

Every week on a Thursday evening, a group of four Italian rural women gather in a derelict stone house in the hills above Italy’s Orvieto. There – along with their friend, Marlena – they cook together, sit down to...

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The Truth About You 9th October 2014

Lainey Hollingsworth is the anchor in her home. In addition to managing her husband’s writing career, she oversees the daily operations of a chaotic family: a rebellious teenage daughter, a stepson who blames her for ruining his life, and...

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The Lady in the Palazzo 1st January 1970

This is the same book as “An Umbrian Love Story: Coming home to Via del Duomo”. A couple in love and a barrle full of eccentric characters. It is a great story of integrating into rather conservative Italian life...

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After Hannibal 1st January 1970

Set amidst Umbria’s landscape of desires and memories, a cast of characters collide in a web of deceit, greed and fallibility. At the centre of these overlapping stories is the cunning lawyer, Mancini, who has an unerring ability to...

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A Footpath in Umbria 1st January 1970

Being a homebody, Nancy never would have spent a year in Italy had it not been for her husband’s wanderlust. The couple didn’t go there to buy or restore a house or to heal a trauma from the past....

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