Title: Extra Virgin
First published: 2001
Description: A small stone house deep among the olive groves of Liguria, going for the price of a dodgy second-hand car. Annie Hawes and her sister, on the spot by chance, have no plans whatsoever to move to the Italian Riviera but find naturally that it's an offer they can't refuse. The laugh is on the Foreign Females who discover that here amongst the hardcore olive farming folk their incompetence is positively alarming. Not to worry: the thrifty villagers of Diano San Pietro are on the case, and soon plying the Pallid Sisters with advice, ridicule, tall tales and copious hillside refreshments...
Subjects: Social life and customs, Description and travel, Travel, Nonfiction, Italy, description and travel, Italy, guidebooks, Italy, social life and customs, Riviera (italy), Women travelers, Women, biography, Homes and haunts, English, Liguria (italy), Large type books, Homes, Manners and customs
Places: Riviera (Italy), Riviera, Italy, Liguria, Liguria (Italy)
People: Annie Hawes
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: DG975.R6 H39 2001