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Chargement... Summer School (2008)par Domenica de Rosa
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Full review can be found here: https://nordie.wordpress.com/2017/09/05/book-review-one-summer-in-tuscany-by-dom... I've enjoyed reading Elly Griffiths' crime books and discovered somewhere along the way that this was a pseudonym of Domenica De Rosa. De Rosa's books looked rather girly and chick lit like and not really my kind of thing. When I spotted one in the library though I picked it up to have a look and ended up absorbed by it. The 'Summer School' of the title is a fortnight long writing workshop taking place in a renovated castle in Tuscany. The characters seemed a bit stereotypical to start with but most of them broke enough boundaries that they seemed like real enough people. It is all a little predictable and I guessed where several of the storylines were going but that didn't really matter. There were a few things that didn't seem quite right, for example, a character who only seemed to be remembered once every 100 pages. I think there is something a bit odd about reading about a writers workshop - it made me want to rewrite parts of this book! That's not something I usually think about! On the whole though, a decent piece of light entertainment and I'll quite possibly read more at some point in the future. This is a very easy and light read, but still has depth to each characterisation. I loved the idea of the writing summer school and the beautiful Tuscan setting, but most of all I loved the characters of Mary, the 74 year old spinster who gets more than she bargained for at the castle, and Aldo, the chef who makes mouthwatering food for the guests, and who also finds something unexpected during the summer. I'm definitely going to read more from this author. This is an excellent summer read. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Love, rivalry and writing in a Tuscan paradise. Relax. Indulge. And discover the writer within... Patricia Wilson's carefully composed ads for the writers' retreat she runs at her thirteenth-century Italian castle promise so much. But while the splendour of their surroundings and chef Aldo's melanzane never fail to wow the guests, huge maintenance bills and bad news from the bank threaten to close Patricia down. It's make or break time for the Castello. Each of her seven aspiring authors arrives with the inevitable baggage alongside their unpublished manuscripts. But this August something is different, and soon lifelong spinster Mary is riding on the back of Aldo's vespa, and smouldering odd-job man Fabio has set more than one heart racing. Even tutor Jeremy is distracted from his pursuit of the prettiest student - by another guest's writing. As temperatures rise, the writers gossip, flirt and gently polish their prose by the pool But with ghosts, scorpions and some unexpected visitors to contend with, one thing's for sure: neither the Casteloo, nor Patricia, has ever seen a summer like this. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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