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Extra Virgin

Annie Hawes

20012 pagesabout 5–10 minutes
2001
first published
  • 2001HarperCollins Publishers · 337 pages · ENGISBN 9780060198503
  • 2001Penguin · 338 pages · ENGISBN 9780140294231
  • 2010Penguin Group UK · ENGISBN 9780141942063
  • 2002Harper Paperbacks · 352 pages · ENGISBN 9780060958114
  • 2001Brand: HarperAudioISBN 9780694524075
  • 2003Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C · 472 pagesISBN 9780754091394
  • 2001Penguin Books Ltd · 2 pagesISBN 9780141803425
  • Penguin · 339 pages · ENGISBN 9780141001012

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...

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