Travelling With the Duke by Anne Harvey

Nelly Larkin has run away, and no-one knows where she is - expect Pino, the local green grocer, and he is sworn to secrecy.

She certainly hasn't confided in her daughter, or her grandchildren, who would only have tried to stop her. With her Italian dictionary and grammar book, and a portrait of the Duke of Montefeltro as her travelling companion, Nelly settles into her small 'room with a view' in a hilltop town in Tuscany.

Her new life as the local curiosity is busy, as she works on her Italian vocabulary, learns to make the perfect zabaglione, and wards off the attentions of an eccentric - and persistent - professor of Renaissance art. She quickly becomes a part of the community - but steadfastly refuses to write home, blissfully unaware of the chain of events her disappearance has set off . . .

Written with a quirky wit and a lively sense of the absurd, Anne Harvey's Travelling With the Duke is a charming meditation on families, friendships, and refusing to bow to the vagaries of life.

Genres: Contemporary Fiction - Women's Fiction - Family Drama - Humour - Travel
Condition: Good
Published: 2009 by Bantam
Pages: 325
ISBN: 9781863256285
Weight: 230g