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 Delicious - Nicky Pellegrino
 Delicious - Nicky Pellegrino ... by OrionNewest Review: ... holiday read stamped all over it; it's not especially challenging, features a picturesque location, some handsome young men ... more ... and follows a popular, if predictable, formula. It's disappointing that Nicky Pellegrino shows such a lack of imagination because she does write rather well. The dialogue is credible, the characters are believable and the descriptions of the food produced in the simple kitchen in the Carrozza house are simply mouth-watering. Unfortunately the plotline - young woman travels to somewhere utterly charming to learn something surprising about her ancestors - has been done to death, think Victoria Hislop's novels "The Is...more |
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Delicious - Nicky Pellegrino: A Light Bite (861 words)
by - written on 10/08/09 (Very useful, 90 readings)
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Sixteen year old Maria Domenica Carrozza manages to persuade her father to let her work in Caffe Angeli, a bar in the little village of San Giulio near Naples. It's the 1960s and although London might have been swinging, backwater Italy was definitely not. Eager to follow her own dreams, Maria runs away to Rome but is back a year later - heavily pregnant and not saying who the father of her unborn child is. As quickly as possible, Maria Domenica is married off to a local lad, one Maria Domenica's younger sister had hoped to snare for herself. At first things aren't too bad; Maria is allowed to go back to work at Caffe Angeli but the arrival of a mural painter to do some ... Read the complete review
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