Tuscany for Beginners by Imogen Edwards-Jones (April 2005)
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Overview: Oh, the dream of escaping to Italy – and the nightmare of reality. . . .
Belinda Smith has found her very own Tuscan valley in the sun, having abandoned a dreary cheating husband and an even drearier English town. Running Casa Mia, her own too, too divine bed and breakfast, everything is coming up sunflowers and olive groves for La Contessa of the Valley. Life couldn’t be more perfecto!
Until, that is, the arrival of Lauren – a beautiful, feisty Wall Street ball-breaker who has the gall to announce her plans to open a new B&B. A place just like Belinda’s – only much more glamorous. Even worse, Lauren, whose charmingly calculated smile Belinda recognizes as quite like her own, threatens Belinda’s existence as the epicenter of all things ex-patriate in the valley.
Have Belinda’s fabulous days of ruling supreme in this corner of the world come to an end? Will the carnivorous Lauren consume Belinda’s dreams al fresco? Will Lauren’s gorgeous son Kyle steal Belinda’s lovely, overworked daughter away from home and hearth (who will do the cleaning, for God’s sake?). War has come to lovely Tuscany – let the fur and focaccia fly!
Genre: Fiction, Literary,
"Five years after discovering her philandering husband in flagrante delicto, Belinda Smith is living la dolce vita as the proprietor of a B & B deep in the heart of Tuscany, where, surrounded by a contingent of fellow British expats, she reigns as the valley’s self-appointed contessa. With her hastily — and cheaply — remodeled villa more down-trodden than up-market, her decorating style more Oscar Madison than Martha Stewart, and her hostessing skills more Marquis de Sade than Relais et Chateaux, Belinda just may be the most inhospitable hotelier since Basil Fawlty. Throw in her long-suffering daughter, Mary, playing Cinderella to Belinda’s wicked stepmother-ish personae, and the pieces are in place for Belinda to receive a royal comeuppance. Enter Lauren, a svelte, savvy, sophisticated American widow who buys a neighboring villa and opens a rival B & B. That’s bad enough, but when Lauren’s son falls for Belinda’s daughter, mamma mia, the fur really flies! British novelist Edwards-Jones makes a boisterous American debut with this bawdy, bewitching comedy of ill-manners." ~BooklistDownload Instructions:
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