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Head over Heel is as good as a holiday. Dramatic, sensual and affectionately amusing. --John Bell, The Bell Shakespeare Company
Very entertaining,enjoyable and engaging. --Peter Carty, former Travel Editor, Time Out
A funny and touching tale about the cultural divide with a sweet and passionate love story at its heart. --The Courier Mail
Very entertaining,enjoyable and engaging. --Peter Carty, former Travel Editor, Time Out
A funny and touching tale about the cultural divide with a sweet and passionate love story at its heart. --The Courier Mail
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A whitewashed fishing village, a shapely signorina and an infatuated young man - head over heels on the heel of the boot of Southern Italy. This is Chris Harrison's hilarious and captivating story of leaving his previous life for La Dolce Vita - that quintessentially Italian seductive way of life, with its luscious foods, physical beauty and sun-drenched vistas. On a trip to Dublin, Chris falls head over heels in love with Daniela, an Italian girl with eyes the colour of Guinness , and follows her to her small home town of Andrano on the coast of Puglia. Among olive groves and cobblestone lanes, Chris takes us on a moving, insightful and often hilarious journey into the heart of southern Italy. Along the way he introduces us to a cast of eccentric characters: a policeman who rearranges crimes to suit the necessary forms, a doctor who prescribes patients his homemade lemon liqueur, and - the biggest challenge of all - Daniela's mamma, who's determined to convert Chris to the Catholic faith, supervise his choice of underwear, and build a second storey on her stucco home where the couple might live happily ever after. Can this relationship with Southern Italy possibly survive or will the sweet life turn sour?
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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Oh how true...,
By Anne Di Salvo "Book-o-holic" (Wiltshire, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Head over Heel: Seduced by Southern Italy (Paperback)
I am married to a man from this part of Italy (albeit a city boy), and I was nodding in recognition on almost every page at the descriptions of how an italian family works, how italians view life, law and parking and how frustrating that is for a 'normal westerner'.
I loved this story and I would also love to read about what happend next, soon please. The only thing which upset me a little was his description of Lecce. I haven't seen the modern Lecce and the bureaucracy there, only the old Baroque city, and what a city that is. If anyone visits this part of Italy, you must go to Lecce.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
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Funtastico!,
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This review is from: Head over Heel: Seduced by Southern Italy (Paperback)
Chris Harrison's work is not only highly entertaining but a real insight into what life in Italia is like. He describes in accurate and amusing detail the idiosycrosis of Italians and how they relate to each other and what every day life is like there. The love story between him and Daniela (smile when you say her name) is heart-warming and addictive. I can't wait for his next book so I can read about what happened next!
One of the best things is that the book is based in Puglia - not Tuscany like a gazillion other stories about life in Italia. To me Puglia is the raw almost untouched Italia and worthy of a trip if you have never been there before. Make sure you read this book before going (and eat at Nonna Tetti's restaurant in Lecce!). I loved it and couldn't put it down. Thanks Chris!
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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How do you say 'superb' in Italian?,
This review is from: Head over Heel: Seduced by Southern Italy (Paperback)
This is an exceptional book! Chris Harrison has written a superb story that is at once romantic (the wooing and winning of Daniela), satirical (of Italians and Italy) and affectionate (of Italians and Italy).
Linguistically it is a tour de force - with lyrical passages of great beauty, outrageous puns and a more insightful and reflective style than other Italian travel memoirs I have read which merely scratch the surface of Italian life. I hope no one decribes this hilarious book as 'unputdownable': I put it down regularly in order to savour the elegance and rhythms of Harrison's prose. A masterpiece. Watch this name.
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