Summer school
By: Domenica De Rosa
Series: Staff Pick; Staff Pick
Publisher: Headline Review; Windsor Paragon
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780755346226; 9780755346219; 9780755346233
Subjects: Authors; Creative writing; Summer schools; Fiction
Description: 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. Each of her seven aspiring authors arrives with the inevitable baggage alongside their unpublished manuscripts, but this August something is different. 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.