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    A Sweet Taste of Italy: An Italian Coffee Table Book
    A Sweet Taste of Italy: An Italian Coffee Table Book
    A Sweet Taste of Italy: An Italian Coffee Table Book
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    A Sweet Taste of Italy: An Italian Coffee Table Book

    By Janie Jerome

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    A SWEET TASTE OF ITALY
    A SAPORE DOLCE D’ITALIA

    This is an immortal tale of a romance between two mature respectable people, an English lady and an Italian man. They share traditional family and moral values which to a younger generation may seem outdated. Neither expected their hearts to be captured by a love affair at their age or in their situations, living three thousand miles apart and unable to speak each other’s languages.
    It is written with great charm refreshing tenderness and breath-taking simplicity. The heroine paints a touching picture of her “Sweet taste of Italy”. The author leaves the reader with a somewhat enigmatic conclusion.
    The story takes place in the picturesque town of Amalfi world renowned for its beauty. The author encapsulates the charm of the people who live in this stunning part of Italy. The flash backs to her own very different style of living at home in England serves to emphasize the impact on the main characters as the book moves through their shared experiences. A Sweet Taste of Italy could be said to be the twenty first century version of “Brief Encounter”. It is a
    “SERENDIPITY” book not to be missed.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJanie Jerome
    Release dateAug 4, 2012
    ISBN9781476255873
    A Sweet Taste of Italy: An Italian Coffee Table Book
    Author

    Janie Jerome

    Janie Jerome has lived and worked in the United States where she researched the life and times of the American wartime band leader Glenn Miller. She researched at Boulder University Colorado where his archives are kept and reported on the Glenn Miller One Hundredth Birthday Celebration Festival held in the town of Clarinda Iowa where Glenn Miller was born. She has written regularly for the British band magazine “Big Band Buddies” and “Miller Notes” the USA Glenn Miller Association Magazine with worldwide circulation. Whilst in America she self-published three books which were acknowledged personally by HRH The Prince of Wales, President and Mrs G Bush and Celine Dion. Her children’s publication “Let the Saints be Alive for Your Children” received a highly commended certification from the American Authors Association. Janie has travelled extensively in Europe particularly Italy which she has re-visited many times during her life. She appeared on the BBC Leeds broadcast of “Desert Island Discs” in January 2012. Janie Jerome is severely deaf and spends much of her time supporting “Action for Hearing Loss”.

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      A Sweet Taste of Italy - Janie Jerome

      AN ITALIAN COFFEE TABLE BOOK

      LIBRO DA METTERE IN MOSTRA ITALIA

      A SWEET TASTE OF ITALY

      A SAPORE DOLCE D’ITALIA

      By

      Janie Jerome

      -

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2012 Janie Jerome

      License Notes: This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this ebook with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      The Author holds exclusive rights to this work, copyright has been established.

      Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance of characters to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

      Copyright of photographic reproductions has been established

      Unauthorized duplication is prohibited.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      PROLOGUE: ABSENCE ITALIAN STYLE ASSENZE STILO ITALIANO

      1 THE BEGINNING L’INIZIO

      2 REUNITED RIUNITI

      3 THE LANUGAGE OF LOVE IL LINGUAGGIO DELL’AMORE

      4 HIDDEN GHOSTS NACOSTA FANTASMI

      5 SECOND ADOLESCENCE SECONDA ADOLESCENZE

      6 LOVE AND FAITH AMORE E FIDUCIA

      7 MOMENT IN THE SUN MOMENTO AL SOLE

      8 I BREATHE THE LOVE RESPIRO ‘AMORE

      9 AFTERMATH CONSEQUENZE

      10 THE LONG GOODBYE IL LUNGO ADDIO

      EPILOGUE: MY SWEET MOTHER MIA MADRE DOLCE

      BIBLIOGRAPHY

      About the Author

      PROLOGUE

      ABSENCE ITALIAN STYLE

      ASSENZA STILO ITALIANO

      Ti amo dove sei andato, amore mio, amore mio

      I remember when I saw your face

      You caught me smiling, I had to look away

      And I could not resist the promise of your kiss

      Now dream is all I do, of paradise and you

      -

      I wanna be where the sun is shining

      Amore mio

      I wanna have you there beside me

      Amore mio

      Now these lazy summer days

      They seem so far away

      But wherever you may go

      Ti amo

      -

      I remember sunsets on fire

      Nights of endless passion

      Burning with desire

      I close my eyes and I can see your smile

      Sky is clear, the ocean blue

      Paradise is lost to me without you

      Take me back where the magic is

      Let me hold you in your arms

      Under the stars

      Rainy days and lonely nights

      Only darkness there's no light

      Without you in my life

      (i)

      CHAPTER ONE

      THE BEGINNING

      L’INIZIO

      Our first visit to Italy had been an extraordinary adventure. First of all we missed the plane. My husband had returned home from work and was lying in the bath when he called out to me,

      "What day is it? I told him.

      What date is it?

      There was a moment of silence. I realized we had been so busy trying to tie up all the loose ends required when one runs a business before we could depart for our holiday that we had got the day and the date mixed up.

      I hurried into the bathroom and we stared in horror at each other. We were supposed to be at the airport boarding a flight for Naples. My husband panicked. I took control. A succession of frenzied phone calls finally got me through to somebody on a desk at Gatwick Airport, I hardly knew who. I think it must have been the tour operator, who said,

      Don’t worry, it happens all the time.

      Really? I exclaimed. I could hardly believe there were other people as careless as we had been.

      What do we do? I asked anxiously.

      Just come at the same time tomorrow, I’ll get you on that flight, you’ll only lose a day. I was told.

      Huge sighs of relief all round but it had shaken my husband badly. He slept only fitfully.

      We did catch the flight the next day. We arrived in pitch black dark and were hustled on to a transfer bus for the journey from Naples to Amalfi. When we reached the seaside resort of Maiori we were transferred again to a mini bus having to lug heavy cases and cabin baggage across the busy street. Most of our fellow travellers were

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