This book is a love letter" - Dolly Alderton Glittering with wit
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] Circle of Friends is a good place to start' JENNY COLGAN
Each story features sweet
The Tuscan Year Discworld This book is a loveIn 1972 Elizabeth Romer moved to a farmhouse in Tuscany, where she discovered a life moulded by the past and tasted the simple, sublime flavours of traditional Italian cooking for the first time. Here, she introduces the Cerotti family who farm one section of the valley, and vividly describes, month by month, the Tuscan year. From January's prosciutto and salame, to cheese making in March, to threshing the corn in high summer, to the game and