The Villa Girls - Softcover

Pellegrino, Nicky

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0752884409 ISBN 13: 9780752884400

Publisher: Orion, 2012

Synopsis

Four friends, a sun-drenched escape, and a holiday that will change everything...

THE VILLA GIRLS is the story of four young women who decide that wherever they are in the world and whatever they're doing they'll meet every few years for a holiday together somewhere sunny. Despite life taking them in very different directions, their snatched days in the sun in little hidden villas are crucial to them all. Escape, celebration, recovery - over the years the holidays change their lives.

Rosie was always the odd one out - initially only invited as the others felt sorry for her, but it seems that in the end, she might be the one whose life is touched the most by her villa days. For it's there that she meets Enzo. The eldest son of an olive oil dynasty in southern Italy, he is being groomed to take over one day as head of the family.

Rosie and Enzo have a holiday romance that seems set to become something more serious until she discovers he is not entirely what he seems. Years later they meet again and this time Rosie must decide how much she is prepared to compromise for the sake of love...

About this title

About the Author:

When Nicky Pellegrino's Italian father came to England he fell in love with and married a Liverpool girl. He brought to his new family his passion for food and instilled in them what all Italians know - that you live to eat instead of eating to live. This Italian mantra is the inspiration behind Nicky's delicious novels. Every summer the family left their home in Merseyside and returned to her father's home town, near Naples, in southern Italy. When Nicky met and married a New Zealander she moved to Auckland where she works as a journalist and edits a woman's magazine. She hoards her annual leave so that she and her husband can return to Italy to meet up with her family and to eat the best mozzarella and research her books.

www.nickypellegrino.com

Review:

A slice of pure sunshine―Good Housekeeping

The descriptions of Italian food will make your mouth water―Cosmopolitan

Sink back on the sofa with this delightful read―Now Magazine

Pulls off the rare trick of being both gritty and lyrical, heartrending and compelling. A novel about how easy it is to become an observer in your own life, and the joy of learning to live again. It also made me very hungry!

About this edition

• Publisher: Orion
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0752884409
• ISBN 13: 9780752884400
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336