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Delicious

By: Nicky Pellegrino
Narrated by: Jane McDowell
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Love, food and Italy - a delicious novel from the author of THE FOOD OF LOVE COOKERY SCHOOL.

Italy, 1964. Maria Domenica is the eldest daughter in the Carrozza family from the tiny southern village of San Giulio. At 16, Maria's life is limited to the confines of her mother's rural kitchen (where she bakes bread every morning, the way the Carrozza women always have), and the Caffe Angeli, a place of friendship, strong espresso and famous ricotta sfolgliatelle. Her parents have high hopes for their beautiful first-born, but she has other plans.

Maria runs away to Rome but, a year later, she returns to San Giulio in disgrace - eight months pregnant with the identity of the father a mystery. Hastily, shamefully, she is married off to a neighbour's son. But she soon escapes again, this time to England, where she searches once more for a new life for herself and her daughter, Chiara.

Many years later, it is Chiara, not Maria, who finds herself drawn back to San Giulio. But she soon discovers that the simple Italian life she seeks is not as simple as it seems - particularly where the past is concerned.

©2011 Nicky Pellegrino (P)2023 Orion Publishing Group Limited Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Romance Italy Village
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Food, cooking, love, loyalties and culture. Another beautiful novel by Nicky. Swept away once again.

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I have loved this authors books, however I could not connect with this one. All the characters and story lines were so unlikable and this was reflected in the narration. It didn’t feel like Nicky Pellegrino at all.

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