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 The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society - Chris Stewart
 The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society - Chris Stewart ... Valero, their farm on the wrong side of the river in rural Andalucia. And life there continues in decidedly oddball fashion...When Chris arrived in the Alpujarras, fifteen years ago, he could never have imagined the locals would invite him to join an Almond Blossom Appreciation Society, or that his daughter Chloe would be teaching him about teenage Spanish social life; nor that he would be spending time shepherding Bostonian art trustees around Seville, or working in an immigrants' advice centre in Granada, spurred into action by the arrival of four young Moroccan 'boat people' at El Valero. In this sequel to Lemons and Parrot, Chris Stewart's optimism and zest for life is as infectious as ever.Newest Review: ... (but not too much) of a background to the friends and neighbours who play an important and considerable part in the stories ... more ... he relates.
The writing will never win awards for scintillating literature but it is relaxed and very funny in a gentle way; he does not possess the dry wit of someone like Tony Hawks but he does have a feeling for understated comedy. The trait I most admire in Chris Stewart’s writing is his ability to convey the spirit of the community in which he lives and this book perhaps goes further than the others in demonstrating this since it is in this book that he says more about the hardships of trying to farm the land ...more |
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The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society
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The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society - Chris Stewart: Not much left to be squeezed out (669 words)
by - written on 02/01/07 (Very useful, 176 readings)
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“The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society” is the third book by Chris Stewart, relating further tales of family life in the Alpajurras region of Andalusia. The first book, “Driving over Lemons” describes how Chris and his wife Ana came to buy a run down rural property in Spain and how they started to fix the place up. “A Parrot in the Pepper Tree” continued the story and introduced readers to some of their neighbours as well as showing the means by which the family made a living, growing olives, farming sheep and selling their crops of oranges. This book is a little different andI enjoyed it a little less; I found it reading more like a collection of short ... Read the complete review
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