Extra Virgin: A Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera, Where Every Month Is Enchanted

Extra Virgin: Amongst the Olive Groves of Liguria

Author: Annie Hawes

Extra Virgin introduces a major new voice in this delicious tale of two sisters who find unexpected joy in the isolated village of Diano San Pietro, Italy. How could anyone leave such a lovely place to go to rack and ruin? It looks as if no one has ever been near it for decades, its land’s untended and its olive tress unkept.  I want it every badly.  It ought to be mine.In….Read More

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