Cinnamon City - Miranda Innes

Since Peter Mayle wrote about how he left England to start a new life abroad, many other Brits have followed his lead and the bookshops are crammed with tales of barn conversions and irate neighbours concerned about the fate of the ancient orchards. Miranda Innes is another in that line; her first book “Getting to Manana “ told the story of how, finding herself suddenly single after many years, Miranda made the decision to buy and renovate a finca in Andalucia. “Cinnamon City” is her second book and this one is an account of how she and her partner Dan, an illustrator, bought and had restored a traditional riad in the Moroccan city of Marrakech that they ...  Read the complete review