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Italy, 1964. Maria Domenica is the eldest daughter in the Carrozza family from the tiny southern village of San Giulio. At 16, Maria's life is limited to the confines of her mother's rural kitchen (where she bakes bread every morning, the way the Carrozza women always have), and the Caffe Angeli, a place of friendship, strong espresso and famous ricotta sfolgliatelle. Her parents have high hopes for their beautiful first-born, but she has other plans. Maria runs away to Rome but, a year later, she returns to San Giulio in disgrace - eight months pregnant with the identity of the father a mystery. Hastily, shamefully, she is married off to a neighbour's son. But she soon escapes again, this time to England, where she searches once more for a new life for herself and her daughter, Chiara. Many years later, it is Chiara, not Maria, who finds herself drawn back to San Giulio. But she soon discovers that the simple Italian life she seeks is not as simple as it seems - particularly where the past is concerned.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Delicious
• Author: Nicky Pellegrino
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• EAN: 9781409147794
• ISBN: 1409147797
• ID: 04781788
• Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
• Weight: 262 g
• Dimensions: 196 × 130 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. June 2013

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