Snowball oranges
Subtitle: one Mallorcan winter
By: Peter Kerr
Publisher: Summersdale Publishers Ltd; Octopus Publishing Group
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Chichester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9781786850423
Subjects: Social life and customs; Homes and haunts; Scots; Description and travel; Orange growers
Other titles: One Mallorcan winter
Description: I could hardly believe my eyes. A cold mantle of white was rapidly transforming our sunny paradise into a bizarre winterscape of citrus Christmas trees, cotton wool palms and snowball oranges. When the Kerr family leave Scotland to grow oranges in a secluded valley on the island of Mallorca they are surprised to be greeted by the same freezing weather they have left behind. Then they realise that their new orange farm is a bit of a lemon...Laughter, finds Peter Kerr, is the best medicine when faced with a local dish of rats and the live-chicken-down-a-chimney technique of household maintenance. But their Mallorcan neighbors help them adapt to their new life. Snowball Oranges is hilarious and revealing, full of life and color, set against the breathtaking beauty of the Mediterranean.
Notes: "First published in 2000"--Half-title page verso.