Nicky Pellegrino

Split into three sections (early 1960s, late 60s and 2000), and across Italy and a very dull England, this is about Maria and her daughter Charia, the former running away from her Italian husband and the latter searching for her missing family and her unknown father. In between there is much talk of food, love, cooking, spiteful sisters and conniving cousins, fame and naivety.[return][return]On the whole an enjoyable, easy

Pretty lightweight romantic novel but good enough. Set in Calabria in the toe of Italy.

Annoyed me at first, but I’m glad I kept reading. Good to read a New Zealand book about menopause. Range of references including Dr Jen Gunter and Lara Briden.

I quite enjoyed this one! It wasn't as predictable as I'd expected. It rushed through some parts of the story I would have liked more of and had a lot of detail about some other bits. I wonder how much was edited out?