A Tuscan Childhood (Large Print Edition) - Hardcover

Beevor, Kinta

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0708934412 ISBN 13: 9780708934418

Publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd, 1996

Synopsis

'Wonderful ... I fell immediately into her world' Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun

Kinta Beevor was five years old when she fell in love with her parents' castle facing the Carrara mountains.

She and her brother ran barefoot, exploring an enchanted world. They searched for wild mushrooms in the hills with Fiore the stonemason, and learned how to tickle trout. The freedom and beauty of life at the castle attracted poets, writers and painters, including D.H. Lawrence and Rex Whistler. The other side to Kinta's childhood was very different, for it was spent with her formidable great aunt, Janet Ross, in a grand villa outside Florence. But soon the old way of life and Kinta's idyllic world were threatened by war.

Nostalgic, yet unsentimental and funny, A TUSCAN CHILDHOOD is a book which transports the reader to bohemian, aristocratic Italy and the sound of bells from a distant campanile.

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Review:

A paean to an idyllic upbringing. Beevor's masterful prose evokes time and place, scent and taste, humour and superstition, the yearly rhythms of rural life ... A delightful read - and likely to inspire many an Italian holiday. (THE LADY)

Book Description:

Classic account of an idyllic childhood in Italy, under the shadow of approaching war.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0708934412
• ISBN 13: 9780708934418
• Binding: Hardcover