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    One Night in Italy

    Written by Lucy Diamond

    Narrated by Geraldine Sharrock

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    About this audiobook

    One Night in Italy is a charming, funny and heartwarming novel from Lucy Diamond, author of The Beach Cafe.

    Is Italian really the language of love? A new class of students hopes to find out . . .

    Anna's recently been told the father she's never met is Italian. Now she's baking focaccia, whipping up tiramisu and swotting up on her vocabulary, determined to make it to Italy so she can find him in person.

    Catherine's husband has walked out on her, and she's trying to pick up the pieces of her life. But she'll need courage as well as friends when she discovers his deception runs even deeper than infidelity.

    Sophie's the teacher of the class, who'd much rather be back in sunny Sorrento. She can't wait to escape the tensions at home and go travelling again. But sometimes life – and love – can surprise you when you least expect it.

    As the evening class gets underway, friendships form and secrets from Italy begin to emerge. With love affairs blossoming in the most unlikely places, and hard decisions to face, it's going to be a year that Anna, Catherine and Sophie will never forget.

    Funny, sunny and wise. An absolute treat -- Katie Fforde

    An utterly joyous novel -- Miranda Dickinson

    Charming, funny and as satisfying as a giant tiramisu. Loved it -- Milly Johnson

    Lucy Diamond is a brilliant writer and she skilfully weaves together three women's lives, each enhanced and changed by the language and food of Italy -- Abby Clements

    Delicious, delightful, and warm, Lucy Diamond never fails to make you laugh out loud and cheer for her colourful cast of characters, and One Night In Italy is no exception -- Rowan Coleman

    This warm, funny, novel skilfully weaves together the lives of three woman, all of them changed or bettered by the language and food of Italy ? Woman's Own
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateJun 5, 2014
    ISBN9781471264054
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    One Night in Italy
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    Lucy Diamond

    Lucy Diamond grew up in Nottingham and went to university in Leeds where she studied English Literature. After graduating, she worked in publishing and at the BBC, and in her spare time she began writing children’s books under a number of different pen names. Two small children later, an evening class in creative writing motivated her to try a longer piece of fiction and explore some of her own feelings about motherhood. This eventually became a novel, Any Way You Want Me, and she was thrilled when Pan Macmillan made her an offer of publication. Now the author of fourteen novels and a Sunday Times bestselling author, Lucy writes with warmth and honesty about the joy and surprises, as well as the complications, that love, family and friendships can bring. Lucy now lives in Bath with her husband and three children and writes full-time.

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    • 4/5
      There was a lot that I liked about this book, it was entertaining, likeable characters, funny, and especially I found it a very non-lecturing way of supporting women to be self-confident and free themselves from poor relationship choices. I therefore found it to be an utter contradiction to this underlying message, that a vulgar word describing female genitals was used liberally by various characters throughout the book - although this word has definitely been used in the last hundred years to humiliate and degradate the female sex. As a female, I cannot condone that.
    • 3/5
      A light and fluffy story about the lives of three women who end up becoming friends through an Italian class. Anna is trying to find her dad who she thinks is Italian. Catherine is going through divorce and Sophie is trying to come to terms with her relationship with her parents and a lost love that she met in Australia through her travels. All in all a little book that is not too taxing on the grey cells but still enjoyable.
    • 5/5
      The novel follows three different young women over the course of a few weeks. One is a journalist, one a back-packer who has returned to see her sick father, and the third a recent empty-nester. They live near each other, and eventually meet at an Italian evening class which two of them have signed up for, and which the third is teaching. It’s the kind of plot that could have been confusing, as there are many minor characters and subplots. I had trouble remembering who was who in the early parts. But the three main characters are different enough that I felt I got to know them all. The style is informal but reads well, although I would have preferred a bit less bad language, and also fewer unexpected explicit (sometimes sordid) conversations. The women are more three dimensional than her men, who are rather more caricatured. But that didn’t particularly matter as the story was focused on the women. There are some surprises, and plenty of light-hearted banter and action. It’s a story of transformation, and discovery. I thought it a thoughtful novel with satisfactory outcomes even if some of the threads are left open.Definitely recommended to those who enjoy women’s fiction of this kind.
    • 5/5
      I loved this book. It is not set in Italy but talks of the illusions we all have of escape and ideals in far flung places. I loved the clarity of the writing. I loved the diversity of the characters and I enjoyed the unfolding story. I would totally recommend this one for cold November nights