A Boatful of Lemons: An Unforgettable Summer on the Amalfi Coast

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I decided I wanted to write a story based in Positano and I wanted it to be fiction, but I wanted to include a lot of little things that happened to me over the years. I've been living here for 24 years. It's enough time to accumulate a lot of experiences. Le recensioni dei clienti, comprese le valutazioni a stelle dei prodotti, aiutano i clienti ad avere maggiori informazioni sul prodotto e a decidere se è il prodotto giusto per loro. So I might think to myself, okay, we've got all these vegetables now. I really should go into the kitchen and make something out of them. I look at what I have and say, I can make this and I can make that. So I go to the kitchen, got the phone on a little tripod. And everything takes double the time because you're moving the camera around and trying to film yourself chopping vegetables and cooking. The book has some beautiful descriptions of Positano & the Amalfi coast, and the way it is richly detailed has the power to transport you to a different place & time. The warm, caring, nature of the townsfolk comes across wonderfully in the book - the primary cast and secondary characters are fleshed out nicely, and it is easy to care for them. I like that we also see them the cast in the future, and how they have got on with their lives.

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And something like 20,000 people watched it. So I thought maybe I should do more. I think it was around about 2011 that I started posting a little bit more, but I didn't really try to make a “thing” until about 2016/2017. So, yes, it has been a while! A Boatful of Lemons is a perfect summer read and one I know I will read over and over because the writing is beautiful. An incredible debut novel by an author who has gained great popularity from blogging and a cookbook in the past. I can’t wait to see what she writes next! Wendy Holloway: One final question about the book title, A Boatful of Lemons. My feeling is that there was a scene with Francesco, the main love interest, on a boat and he has all these lemons that spill into the boat and it seemed to me that was the inspiration. I love it now. It's something I do quite happily. And I love the fact that I can make food from what we have in our garden, which is a huge thing for us nowadays. Wendy Holloway: About a decade ago I went to a fish shop in Positano and I was watching them load fish coming from the port into the shop, just the most gorgeous fish. And then at a certain point one of the people in the shop loaded up a ton of fish and put it on his shoulder to walk off somewhere. And I said, “Where are you going?” And he said, “Oh, I'm taking this to a restaurant.”The book is set in 1986, the first year I came here. I wanted to write a lot of my experiences, a lot of the funny, quirky little things that happened to me over the years. And I wanted to bring them all together in one fictional story. Scarica l'app Kindle gratuita e inizia a leggere immediatamente i libri Kindle sul tuo smartphone, tablet o computer, senza bisogno di un dispositivo Kindle. Having been to the Amalfi Coast multiple times over the past few decades, I am always searching for novels set in this colorful seaside setting that I love. This is the first novel that really captures the place AND has great characters and a unique and believable plot.

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There are interesting personalities and lots of experiences building up to a very realistic ending.I love books that have crossovers with other characters or books that have places that you can actually look up on Google and find, and they're real. I wanted to make the book a little bit like a treasure hunt in a way for visitors to Positano. He took me to this little place where he always stayed, one of these smaller family owned places, Casa Cosenza.

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An enjoyable, easy summer read. I read it while floating around the pool. Likable characters, flawed characters but real life situations. Very relatable. I do hope she continues her writing. And then the other one that we go to quite often is our nearest restaurant to home, the Ritrovo up in Montepertuso, which is a beautiful little restaurant in the little piazza up in the town square. I would finish the book when we were only supposed to read the first chapter. So I loved reading and me and my mum together, we always talked about writing a book one day, and it was something that we both loved the idea of doing. We talked about maybe doing it separately or doing it together, but it was a dream that we both had. Wendy Holloway: I have just one last question about your YouTube channel, Positano Diaries, which I absolutely love.Wendy Holloway: I’ll share a little story with you. Before we were married, my husband took me to Positano in 1982 or 1983. We went there, driving along the Amalfi coast. It's so breathtaking. You accurately portray life in Positano including local dishes and venues that have been around forever since the time when this book takes place.

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Then I remembered a book I’d read called Seven Eves. It was science fiction, and I don't normally read science fiction, but it was a fascinating book. It was about how one day the moon broke into pieces, and everybody was like, oh what happened, what happened, and then eventually a scientist comes along and says, we shouldn't be concentrating on what happened, we need to concentrate on what's going to happen next, what are the consequences are of this. So... You could read it and come here and find some of the locations, some of the characters even, and really get a feel of what it was like. So, that was my intention. I've followed this author on YouTube (Positano Diaries) long before she had accumulated, thousands of followers. I can remember everybody being so horrified by me and slowly, slowly people teaching me how to feed myself. So if you're doing it for the money, no, you need to find yourself a publisher who's going to publish it and get it out in the shops and everything.A Boatful of Lemons takes place in Positano, the breathtaking cliffside village on Italy's Amalfi Coast. Although the book is a work of fiction it's interlaced with some of Positano's factual local characters, and historic bars and restaurants.