Clover, 61, has been made redundant from her corporate job. Her partner is not being particularly supportive, immediately taking off on a golfing weekend, and her mother Eleanor is whinging about being bored at her retirement home.
So Clover decides to take off to Italy, to visit her cousin Zoe who runs a taverna with her husband Paulo.
Soon she finds herself relaxing and imagining a new way of life.
This was a light-hearted read, with Italian romance and escapism. One thing that was totally overdone and didn’t seem to suit Clover’s character as a powerhouse careerwoman was her tendency for spills and pratfalls.
