Tuscany for Beginners - Softcover

'An awful warning, a terrific romp' Katie Fforde on Tuscany for Beginners 'A tour de farce...It's handbags at dawn in the Tuscan hills. Hugely enjoyable holiday romp. There's only one way to have more fun in the sun!' Kathy Lette on Tuscany for Beginners 'There's a conscious echo of E. F. Benson's brilliant Mapp & Lucia stories. A gleefully malicious antidote to all those self-satisfied memoirs by Brits living the simple life in France and Italy' Marie Claire on Tuscany for Beginners 20040801 'A funny, feisty, feel-good read' Company on The Wendy House 20040801 'A bitingly funny satire...sharp, witty and vastly entertaining' Heat on My Canape Hell 20040801 'A comic masterpiece' Marie Claire on The Wendy House 20040801

Belinda Smith moved to Tuscany five years ago after finding her husband in bed with another woman. In the months following, Belinda's destiny became clear to her. She would leave behind the dull dormitory town of Tilling, where nothing ever happened. And seek out new and more exciting pastures in the Italian countryside. She would start life again. On her own. She would run a B&B and keep a diary. She would jot down her thoughts, share her ideas and pass on her delicious recipes to the next generation. Battlelines are drawn when rival Lauren, a feisty American, comes to Tuscany with the same idea. And when Lauren's son falls in love with Belinda's daughter, war is well and truly declared.