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    Tuscany for Beginners: A Novel

    By Imogen Edwards-Jones

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    Oh, the dream of escaping to Italy–and the nightmare of reality. . . .

    Belinda Smith has found her very own Tuscan valley in the sun, having abandoned a dreary cheating husband and an even drearier English town. Running Casa Mia, her own too, too divine bed and breakfast, everything is coming up sunflowers and olive groves for La Contessa of the Valley. Life couldn’t be more perfecto!

    Until, that is, the arrival of Lauren–a beautiful, feisty Wall Street ball-breaker who has the gall to announce her plans to open a new B&B. A place just like Belinda’s–only much more glamorous. Even worse, Lauren, whose charmingly calculated smile Belinda recognizes as quite like her own, threatens Belinda’s existence as the epicenter of all things ex-patriot in the valley.

    Have Belinda’s fabulous days of ruling supreme in this corner of the world come to an end? Will the carnivorous Lauren consume Belinda’s dreams al fresco? Will Lauren’s gorgeous son Kyle steal Belinda’s lovely, overworked daughter away from home and hearth (who will do the cleaning, for God’s sake?). War has come to lovely Tuscany–let the fur and focaccia fly!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateDec 10, 2008
    ISBN9780307492197
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    Imogen Edwards-Jones

    Imogen Edwards-Jones is an award-winning journalist, novelist, and screenwriter. She is the author of the bestselling Babylon series of industry exposés, which sold over a million copies worldwide. The first book in the series, Hotel Babylon, was adapted into the returning prime time BBC1 TV series.  Author of over twenty other books, she is the editorial consultant on Julian Fellowes' Belgravia. She read Russian at Bristol University and has traveled extensively in the old Soviet Union, writing the travel book, The Taming of Eagles: Exploring New Russia. She lives in London, is member of the London College of Psychic Studies and an honorary Cossack.

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    • 2/5
      It's tough to like a book when the main character is actually pretty repulsive, and quite the liar. Then, it is even harder when a second strong character comes along that you don't like any better than the first, but the two of them are locked in social and business-level battle. The story was touted as being humorous, and some of the descriptions were outrageous, and the literary equivalent of watching someone chew with their mouth open, but I didn't actually find much of it to be funny. It had some okay side-bits, and a slightly okay romance, and the ending was not wrapped up in a little bow, which was quite nice.
    • 4/5
      A very enjoyable comedy starring Belinda, an expat running a B & B in Tuscany. Accounts of what really happens are followed by Belinda's (fantasy) diary entries. Hilarious! Mother-daughter relationship has echoes of Edina & Saffron's in Absolutely Fabulous. National stereotypes well done and fit the tone of the book extremely well. An ironic ending that makes you want to know what happens next.