Picked this up from my current local library in Lauttasaari. Somebody had obviously run out of love of Italy in general and Tuscany in particular, as there were five books written by expats sitting abandoned. I had to take them all, even the two I already had...
I don't think I have read this book before, but Dementia is my middle name, so I will have to take a closer look of it.

I'm lending this to my old friend Elisabeth, who does not hold too rosy an opinion of Italy, her daughter having lived there for a number of years.

Enjoyable read right from the first to the last page. A very interesting and positive book about an American couple who fell in live with Italy and lead a perfect life there.

The book returned to me already some time ago, but it jumped up in my reading-queue as our clients announced being on a look-out of a winter house in Tuscany. "The cold of Finland" is mentioned on page one, but I don't mind the cold, it's the long dark period which make me want to sleep around the clock.

For some reason the book did not have the flow for me, so I stopped on page 20. Perhaps my mind is elsewhere - I´m looking after the horses and dogs of my workmate and on night one the horses decided to wreck their stable. I put them outside in the rain to cool off - let them stay there for the weekend - or the week to come… I am so not a horse person.

Edit: After an hour the neighbour called and asked if I was alive - the horses were in her yard...

The book is hopefully getting a new home today.