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    That's Amore!: Lasagne, language trouble and love in a 1970s Italian village

    By Valerie Barona

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    The book is a light-hearted view of life in a rural Italian village in the 1970s. It is a picture of an Italy that is long gone.

    Aged 22, Valerie left a comfortable life in Poole, Dorset, to follow her Italian fiancé to his home in northern Italy. In 1977, Piussogno was a sleepy mountain village where nothing much happened apart from the occasional triple birth of lambs. Valerie’s arrival was cause for gossip. The decision to build a disco meant she must be rich and it was also a foregone conclusion that she was pregnant. They were wrong on both fronts.

    Her new life involved living with her future in-laws, learning both the language and how to drive like an Italian and then the completion of the disco coincided with a visit from the local mafia...

    The language, the locals and lasagne – That’s Amore!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTroubador Publishing Ltd
    Release dateAug 1, 2013
    ISBN9781783068913
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    That's Amore!: Lasagne, language trouble and love in a 1970s Italian village
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    Valerie Barona

    Valerie Barona was born in 1955 in Poole, Dorset. She trained as a teacher and then followed her husband to Piussogno, his village in northern Italy. After having two children, she embraced village life and returned to teaching English. Nowadays, she also enjoys entertaining her grandchildren - and writing.

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