When Annie Hawes buys a hillside cottage in Italy for no more than the price of a dodgy second-hand car, a capable young Englishwoman becomes a surprisingly incapable Ligurian "signorina"... In the overgrown garden of a small, stone house amongst the olive groves of Liguria, high above the Mediterranean, a curious combination of bonfire dinner and business meeting occurs. In the area by chance, Annie and her sister have no intention of moving to the Italian Riviera. Still, they eat the fragrant, rosemary-skewered sausages, drink (perhaps a little too much of) the wine, and allow themselves to be taken on a moonlit tour of the ramshackle house and garden ... and fall in love with it all. Their new neighbours are baffled - how have these Foreign Females survived without learning to spot wild asparagus or tell good mushrooms from bad? Don't they have "any" idea how to get a supply of olive oil from a couple of dozen olive trees, or good wine from bramble-choked vines? Fortunately the hard-core olive-farming folk of Diano San Pietro are on hand to ply them with huge meals, plenty of ridicule and all the old-fashioned know-how they'll need to get by.

This book is off on a ray to the following people. If you want to join PM me.

Julie / Anglers Rest
Sarah / Pookledo
Leonie/ turquoisefloyd or her mum :-)>>>>>> book is here

Arrived today with two bars of G & B - thanks so much.

Thanks so much for this book. I did actually have two copies of this. One I passed on via Book Relay and the other was on my TBR pile, then when I went to read it, it had vanished!

This is a great book, it tells of Annie Hawes love affair with Italy, the people and of course Olives!

Just about to PM Pookledo for an address, then it will be off on its travels!

Pookledo's address has arrived, so Extra Virgin will be off in the post on Monday 1st Aug

Received through the post this morning. Looks good!

I've got one book to finish reading before I start this one, but I'm looking forward to it already :o)

Just finished this one.

It was recommended to me by a friend a while ago so I was happy when I saw it offered up on a bookray.

Glad to have read it. I've parcelled it up ready to post it off to turquoisefloyd tomorrow.

You were right Sarah - there was something on it's way to me! Thanks for sending it on :-)

Just showed it to my Mum - she likes the sound of it so she'll be reading it after the BC book she's currently reading! I really must get her to register on the site!

Mum gave me this book back last night and said that she enjoyed it, it wasn't completely compelling but it was interesting enough to read through to the end.

Will now PM Vespa to see if she wants me to send it back!

Vespa left this book in my hands, to do with what I want, so I offered it on BCUK and am starting a bookray.

So far I have:

Laura0141
Gembear

Lined up for it.

This is now a bookray. Anyone else wishing to join, please mail me with location and posting preferences!

The list:

laura0141
Gembear
jeanmicheler

Will now PM laura0141 for her address.

Book has been received safely. I've a few other rings before it but will read as soon as possible.

Am passing this book on unread for health reasons.

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On way to gembear.

Arrived in the mail today and am looking forward to losing myself in the romantic story of life in another country. I know, I know, it isn't all that romantic to uproot oneself having done just that but hey, that's what I like about books, they take you away from the ordinary and mundane!