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Journey to the South
by: Annie Hawes

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 910
EAN: 9780141017525
ISBN: 014101752X
Label: Penguin Books Ltd
Manufacturer: Penguin Books Ltd
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: July 07, 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Studio: Penguin Books Ltd
Sales Rank: 30479

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- A brilliant book
The 3rd of Annie Hawes books, this one sees her and her Calabrese fidanzato heading south to his ancestrial home of Calabria. A great book and I love that you feel that you know the whole family. Being half Calabrese, and having a Calabrese fidanzato myself I really could appreciate all she was writing about.
All 3 of her books are my all time favourites.

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- Realistic and Relevant!
I really enjoyed this latest offering from Annie Hawes. Her wonderful descriptions of the people she met in Calabria are so realistic. Maybe it is because I now live in Italy but much of her writing seemed relevant to life here in Lazio. I have to say though I do wonder how some of the personalities featured would react if they were ever to read about themselves!!

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- Half a goat's head
In the mid-1980s, the British sisters, Annie and Lucy Hawes, fled cold and rainy Shepherd's Bush to graft roses in the Italian Riviera region of Liguria, and ended up buying a dilapidated farmhouse with adjacent olive grove near the town of Diano San Pietro. This story of culture shock comprised Annie's first book, EXTRA VIRGIN. Lucy subsequently left Annie to manage the farm on her own, and the latter's continuing coping exploits were shared in her second volume, RIPE FOR THE PICKING, in which she meets a man with romantic potential, Ciccio de Gilio. Now, in the third installment, JOURNEY TO THE SOUTH, Annie and Ciccio are each other's significant other. The book's title is inspired by a death in the de Gilio family, an event which compels ... Read More:

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- A Southern delight
Despite a healthy love of all things Italian, I try to avoid books entitled "A Year in..." so I hadn't read any of Annie Hawes' material. Two pages in to this, however, and I was hooked. Enough and probably everything has been written about life in Tuscany, villas on the hills, blah, blah, blah; this book takes you to the underbelly of daily existence, southern Italian style. Calabria is a region deprived of its northern cousins' fame, yet exudes a life from days of yore, and Annie Hawes captures the intricacies of morning coffee, preparing mountains of lavishly described food and how/when/why to eat, with social and well-paced historical comment. Ms Hawes has a delicate eye for the detail and takes you on a journey not just to the toe of Italy, ... Read More:

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- An eye opener
Annie Hawes has a vivid way of writing about both people and places. Here she covers her first visit, and the de Gillio family's return to their southern roots. However, for some of the de Gillios much of Calabrian custom is as strange as Annie finds it. So there is a double strand of reactions to local customs, plus discovery by Annie of which "Ligurian customs" that she has known for years are in fact transported Calabrian ones.
She also covers the region's history, and I was stunned by how economically repressed the area had been - even into the 20th century.

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