A Dream of Italy
An uplifting story of love, family and holidays in the sun!
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Narrated by:
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Jane McDowell
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By:
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Nicky Pellegrino
About this listen
Live your dream of Italy...
Here is your chance to buy your own home in southern Italy for less than the price of a cup of coffee. The picturesque mountain town of Montenello is selling off some of its historic buildings for just ONE EURO each. The only conditions are that purchasers must renovate their new home within the next three years and that they plan to contribute in a meaningful way to this small community.
To be considered as a future resident of Montenello contact the town's mayor, Augusto Rossi. Live your dream of Italy for just one euro.
When the Mayor of a picturesque Italian town launches a new scheme to rejuvenate the community, his advertisement is read with interest and excitement by many. Zara is in her thirties and desperate to get on the property ladder. Tim and Lynda are retiring and need a project. Some are looking for a peaceful bolthole. Others hope to make a profit, start a business, escape a dull life or an unhappy relationship. And there is someone who just might be hiding their true motivation...
Their lives are about to change forever - but can they make their dream of Italy into a reality? A deliciously escapist summer read.
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Your favourite authors love Nicky Pellegrino...
'Heartrending and compelling' JOJO MOYES
'The ultimate escapist read!' VERONICA HENRY
'Deliciously romantic' ERICA JAMES
'Knowing, compassionate and moving' CATHERINE ROBERTSON
'Warm, engaging and truly delicious' ROSANNA LEY
'A delicious and sensual adventure' FIONA GIBSON
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When Catherine learns that she is dying, she remembers the words her husband once jokingly uttered and decides to leave him the ultimate posthumous gift: a time capsule containing photographs of their life together along with tape recordings in which she recounts every secret she ever kept, every unspoken thought whether loving or treacherous - the things they never said.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Boring couple, Boring Book
- By Shell on 12-23-18
By: Nick Alexander
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The Bookshop on Rosemary Lane
- By: Ellen Berry
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Glaister
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Story4 out of 5 stars 101
Take a trip to the Yorkshire village of Burley Bridge, where a very special little cookbook shop is about to open its doors.... In the beginning...Kitty Cartwright has always solved her problems in the kitchen. Her cookbooks are her life, and there isn't an issue that 'Cooking with Aspic' can't fix. Her only wish is that she had a book entitled Rustling Up Dinner When Your Husband Has Left You. Forty years later.... On Rosemary Lane, Della Cartwright plans to open a very special little bookshop.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Bookshop on Rosemary Lane
- By Nanette P. Riegert on 05-24-17
By: Ellen Berry
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The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
- By: Katarina Bivald
- Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham, Lorelei King
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- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,061
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 966
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Story4 out of 5 stars 966
It all began with a correspondence between two quite different women: 28-year-old Sara from Haninge, Sweden, and 65-year-old Amy from the small town of Broken Wheel, Iowa. After years of exchanging books, letters and thoughts on the meaning of literature and life, Sara, mousy, disheveled, who has never been anywhere in her life--has really lived only for her work in a beloved bookshop, which has just closed its doors for the last time--bravely decides to accept her unknown friend's invitation to visit. But when she arrives, she finds her house empty, the funeral guests just heading home. . .
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed - no depth & poor narration
- By Kelly on 01-28-16
By: Katarina Bivald
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Coming Home
- Chesapeake Diaries Series #1
- By: Mariah Stewart
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 249
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 226
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 226
In the wake of his wife's murder, agent Grady Shields turned his back on the FBI - and everything else-to retreat into the vast solitude of Montana, grieve for his lost love, and forget the world. But after years in seclusion, his sister's wedding draws him to St. Dennis, a peaceful town on the Chesapeake Bay. Though he swears he isn't interested in finding love again, Grady can't ignore the mutual sparks that fly when he meets Vanessa Keaton.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Graet New Series from Audible
- By casey on 08-25-12
By: Mariah Stewart
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Upside Down Inside Out
- By: Monica McInerney
- Narrated by: Melissa Eccleston
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 37
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4 out of 5 stars 36
Ever been tempted to pretend you were someone exotic, someone adventurous, someone different? Set in Ireland, England and Australia, this is the funny and heart-warming story of two people whose lives are about to turn upside down and inside out. Eva is off to Australia on a break from her job in a Dublin delicatessen, hoping to forget a fizzled romance and find inspiration for a new career. Joseph is taking a holiday from his stressful London job. Each is on a search for some answers about life.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The story was slow and whiney.
- By DTA on 08-22-15
By: Monica McInerney
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Christmas at Snowdrop Cottage
- By: Helen J. Rolfe
- Narrated by: Ana Clements
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 46
All it takes is a cozy cottage, nostalgia for her family, and the unexpected presence of a tall, handsome man to make Belle realize the true meaning of Christmas.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing
- By Bonnye Albert on 01-04-20
By: Helen J. Rolfe
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The Picture House by the Sea
- By: Holly Hepburn
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 24
The picture house by the sea is the Palace at Polwhipple - a lovely art deco cinema nestled in front of azure Cornish seas. But it is long past its heyday now, and its only saving grace is Ferrelli's, the family run ice-cream concession in the foyer, which is widely known as the best ice cream for miles. So when Ferdie, the owner of Ferelli's, breaks his leg, his granddaughter Gina drops everything to come and help out.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Picture House by the Sea
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By: Holly Hepburn
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Christmas at the Little Knitting Box
- By: Helen J. Rolfe
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 85
When Cleo and Dylan find each other at a Christmas party, will they be able to make the necessary choices in order to find happiness and love for themselves?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful story
- By A. J. Powers on 11-30-19
By: Helen J. Rolfe
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The Paris Key
- By: Juliet Blackwell
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 379
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 345
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Story4 out of 5 stars 350
As a girl, Genevieve Martin spent the happiest summer of her life in Paris, learning the delicate art of locksmithing at her uncle's side. But since then, living back in the States, she has become more private, more subdued. She has been an observer of life rather than an active participant, holding herself back from those around her, including her soon-to-be ex-husband. Paris never really left Genevieve, and, as her marriage crumbles, she finds herself faced with an incredible opportunity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not a cozy murder mystery but a cozy slice of life
- By sams on 10-23-15
By: Juliet Blackwell
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Me Without You
- By: Kelly Rimmer
- Narrated by: Federay Holmes
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 323
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 289
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 286
If you enjoyed Me Before You by JoJo Moyes, One Day by David Nicholls, or The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks, then make time for Kelly Rimmer's stunning, heartbreaking new audiobook, Me Without You.A story of how love can break our hearts - and heal them. A year ago I met the love of my life. For two people who didn't believe in love at first sight, we came pretty close....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good Story; Too detailed
- By Seelake4 on 06-17-16
By: Kelly Rimmer
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The Lost Carousel of Provence
- By: Juliet Blackwell
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 338
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 296
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 296
Long, lonely years have passed for the crumbling Château Clement, nestled well beyond the rolling lavender fields and popular tourist attractions of Provence. Once a bustling and dignified ancestral estate, now all that remains is the château's gruff, elderly owner and the softly whispered secrets of generations buried and forgotten. But time has a way of exposing history's dark stains, and when American photographer Cady Drake finds herself drawn to the château and its antique carousel, she longs to explore the relic's shadowy origins.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved It!
- By T Heskett on 09-23-18
By: Juliet Blackwell
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Us: A Novel
- By: David Nicholls
- Narrated by: David Haig
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 862
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 769
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Story4 out of 5 stars 773
Douglas Petersen may be mild-mannered, but behind his reserve lies a sense of humor that seduces beautiful Connie into a second date...and eventually into marriage. Now, almost three decades later, they live more or less happily in the London suburbs with their moody seventeen year-old son, Albie. Then Connie tells him she thinks she wants a divorce. The timing couldn’t be worse. Connie has planned a month-long tour of European capitals, a chance to experience the world’s greatest works of art as a family, and she can’t bring herself to cancel. And maybe going ahead is for the best anyway? Douglas is privately convinced that this landmark trip will rekindle the romance in the marriage, and might even help him to bond with Albie. Narrated from Douglas’s endearingly honest, slyly witty, and at times achingly optimistic point of view, Us is the story of a man trying to rescue his relationship with the woman he loves, and learning how to get closer to a son who’s always felt like a stranger.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great novel - my favorite in years
- By Mark on 07-21-15
By: David Nicholls
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Death in Provence: A Novel
- Penelope Kite, Book 1
- By: Serena Kent
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 153
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Story4 out of 5 stars 137
It’s love at first sight when Penelope Kite sees Le Chant d’Eau - The Song of Water - the stone farmhouse tucked high in the hills above the Luberon valley. For years, Penelope put her unfaithful ex-husband and her ungrateful stepchildren first. Now, she’s going to start living for herself. Though her dream house needs major renovations, Penelope impulsively buys the property and moves to St. Merlot. But Penelope’s daydreams of an adventurous life in Provence didn’t include finding a corpse floating face down in her swimming pool.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Too Laconic
- By AB on 04-13-19
By: Serena Kent
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Losing the Light
- A Novel
- By: Andrea Dunlop
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 93
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 85
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 84
When 30-year-old Brooke Thompson unexpectedly runs into a man from her past, she's plunged headlong into memories she's long tried to forget about the year she spent in France following a disastrous affair with a professor.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Right book for right time
- By Pamela G. on 08-06-18
By: Andrea Dunlop
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Hello from the Gillespies
- By: Monica McInerney
- Narrated by: Ulli Birvé
- Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 170
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 153
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Story4 out of 5 stars 156
For the past 33 years, Angela Gillespie has sent to friends and family around the world an end-of-the-year letter titled ‘Hello from the Gillespies’. It’s always been cheery and full of good news. This year, Angela surprises herself - she tells the truth....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Engaging
- By mgn on 08-18-15
By: Monica McInerney
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Death by Cashmere
- Seaside Knitters, Book 1
- By: Sally Goldenbaum
- Narrated by: Julie McKay
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 330
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 297
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Story4 out of 5 stars 293
Not long after Isabel "Izzy" Chambers opens up a knitting shop in the sleepy fishing town of Sea Harbor, Massachusetts, a diverse group of women begins congregating each week to form the Seaside Knitters. Izzy raises some eyebrows when she rents the apartment above her shop to Angie Archer, whose reputation for loose behavior and a quick temper has made her unpopular with many locals. But could any of them have wanted her dead? Angie's body is discovered drowned in the harbor, her long red hair tangled like seaweed in a lobster trap.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great first book in a new series
- By BayHighBaby on 03-03-16
By: Sally Goldenbaum
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Story4 out of 5 stars 421
Kit Raine, an American writer living in Tuscany, is working on a biography of her close friend, a complex woman who continues to cast a shadow on Kit’s own life. Her work is waylaid by the arrival of three women - Julia, Camille, and Susan - all of whom have launched a recent and spontaneous friendship that will uproot them completely and redirect their lives. Susan, the most adventurous of the three, has enticed them to subvert expectations of staid retirement by taking a lease on a big, beautiful house in Tuscany.
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Enchanting
- By Jan Harris on 04-14-18
By: Frances Mayes
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One Italian Summer
- A Novel
- By: Rebecca Serle
- Narrated by: Lauren Graham
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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When Katy’s mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn’t just Katy’s mom, but her best friend and first phone call. She had all the answers and now, when Katy needs her the most, she is gone. To make matters worse, their planned mother-daughter trip of a lifetime looms: to Positano, the magical town where Carol spent the summer right before she met Katy’s father. Katy has been waiting years for Carol to take her, and now she is faced with embarking on the adventure alone.
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Not the best
- By constance mcnamara on 03-12-22
By: Rebecca Serle
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See You in the Piazza
- New Places to Discover in Italy
- By: Frances Mayes
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Frances Mayes
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 89
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Best-selling and beloved author Frances Mayes discovers the hidden pleasures of Italy in a sumptuous travel narrative that crisscrosses the country, with inventive new recipes celebrating Italian cuisine.
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Bravo Cassandra Campbell
- By John Genzale on 05-20-19
By: Frances Mayes
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To Italy, with Love
- By: Nicky Pellegrino
- Narrated by: Jane McDowell
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Assunta has given up on love. She might run her little trattoria in the most romantic mountain town in Italy, but love just seems to have passed her by. Sarah-Jane is finished with love. She's hiring an old convertible and driving around Italy this summer—it's the perfect way to forget all about her hot celebrity ex-boyfriend! But when Sarah-Jane's car breaks down in Montenello, she has to stay longer than she intended! And the trouble is, love is everywhere....
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So fun and pleasing
- By fdejesus on 08-08-23
By: Nicky Pellegrino
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Marry Me in Italy
- By: Nicky Pellegrino
- Narrated by: Jane McDowell
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Skye has been with Tim forever and the last thing she's thinking about is saying 'I do'. It's Tim that enters the dream wedding competition - he's longing to win an all-expenses-paid trip to romantic Montenello. An escape to a beautiful Italian hill town might be just what they need to find love again... Ana definitely isn't interested in getting married - she doesn't need a man to make her happy. But when she loses her job at a glossy food magazine, she jumps at the chance of a new life, renovating a crumbling Italian farmhouse.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Always love her books!
- By Tamie Carroll on 09-17-24
By: Nicky Pellegrino
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The Villa Girls
- By: Nicky Pellegrino
- Narrated by: Harriet Carmichael
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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The Villa Girls is the story of four young women who decide that wherever they are in the world and whatever they're doing they'll meet every few years for a holiday together somewhere sunny. Despite life taking them in very different directions, their snatched days in the sun in little hidden villas are crucial to them all. Escape, celebration, recovery - over the years the holidays change their lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hated for it to end
- By Leah K. on 07-18-24
By: Nicky Pellegrino
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- Karen Geary
- 09-24-23
Perfect Cozy Story
Really enjoyed this one, wonderful characters and story. If you’re not dreaming of Italy, I’ll be shocked.
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- Daniel G Askew
- 01-30-24
Excellent narration
Interesting way author develops each character independently . Would have preferred less elaboration on the romance of the gay couple but overall e excellent story
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- Dianne Caplin
- 05-26-21
lo amo ♥
what a wonderful tale. makes me want to to Italy! didn't want it to end!
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- Chris
- 09-20-21
greatly enjoyed it.
loved the approach. Hard to find anything these days that does not contain four lettered words and violence. Enjoyed the narrative. But the thing that truly astonished me was the narrator Jane. How on earth can she do Australian, English, Italian, American accents without error. It is almost impossible to get Australian accurately without being Australian. Bravo Jane!!
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- k
- 05-08-24
Character friends
This book has well written characters that develop to be your friends. You root for these friends as they travel through self-discovery and a new town full of history and quirks. The writer creates interest as you feel invested in the success of your new friends. The friends cover many different stages in life as well as lifestyles, however you grow to love them all. I personally enjoyed these characters as well as the landscape of Italy.
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- Robyn
- 12-17-20
Beautiful story and narration!!!
What a beautiful story! Had me thinking I may want to move to a small town in Italy!
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- Thalia
- 01-18-21
A Dream of Italy
A Dream of Italy. A fabulous book could not put it down. Felt as if you knew everyone. great read
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- fdejesus
- 08-08-23
Loved it so beautiful
Loved it
So entertaining and fun and romantic the food the vistas
The town
I want more of the Montenello
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- Sunshine525
- 10-26-19
Road trip worthy
This was so magical for me as I was taking my road trip wishing I was driving through Italy.
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- Stephanie
- 09-21-21
Soooooo good
Fabulous read!! Love it through and through!!!! Definitely worth indulging in any time of the day or night
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