- Hardcover: 423 pages
- Publisher: Bantam Books (May 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0553805479
- ISBN-13: 978-0553805475
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14.5 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,946,293 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Full of the same colour and verve as Capella's The Food of Love, this story also blends romance with gourmet delights (GOOD Housekeeping )
The Wedding Officer resembles a cross between Captain Corelli's Mandolin and Chocolat, while remaining a charming and powerful fiction in its own right (Michael Arditti )
This is an engaging tale. It brims with fascinating historical detail, an infectious enthusiasm for southern Italy and its cuisine and is an undemanding and sympathetic love story (Sunday TIMES )
Spicy, funny, delicious and sexy, this is the perfect holiday book (EVENING HERALD ) --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
The Wedding Officer resembles a cross between Captain Corelli's Mandolin and Chocolat, while remaining a charming and powerful fiction in its own right (Michael Arditti )
This is an engaging tale. It brims with fascinating historical detail, an infectious enthusiasm for southern Italy and its cuisine and is an undemanding and sympathetic love story (Sunday TIMES )
Spicy, funny, delicious and sexy, this is the perfect holiday book (EVENING HERALD ) --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
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'I'll be lucky to hear anything more enjoyable...Grant narrates
with magnificent panache'
--This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
with magnificent panache'
--This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I was completely engrossed in this book. The descriptions of mouthwatering food, scintillating sex and honest to goodness naivety were refreshing. The bravery, stubborness and humiliation of the characters were blended together as well as the pasta sauces described throughout. The factual information was enough to ensure that the picture I was left with was one of how awful those times were but equally how determined everyone was to ensure a better future for themselves. Pity I got to the end, I was happy to keep reading!
25 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Anthony Capella burst on the summer book market last year with his retelling of the Cyrano de Bergerac story, 'The Food of Love'. Now, in a delightful tale that mixes fact and fiction, Capella has moved the setting from modern-day Rome to Naples in the latter years of the Second World War. Understandably the story is darker than the first novel, but the narrative still brilliantly conveys the warmth and passion of Italy, the beauty of the countryside around Vesuvius, and of course the joy of Italian food, both in feast and famine. The author has also researched his subject. The big adventure that took away the romantic young men of Mussolini's Italy turns into the nightmare of war, and starvation and humiliation for the women of Naples. With even-handed portrayals of Allied and German troops and penetrating observations of what people will do simply to survive, Capella mines his subject skillfully. But in the end this is a fine love story from a very fine storyteller.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I took this on holiday with me and unfortunately, I was a bit disappointed. I read The Food of Love last year and really enjoyed it for its light-hearted, easy reading style. I felt like The Wedding Officer was trying too hard to be a book of more substance but I don't think that is where the author's strengths lie. The book started off brilliantly with fantastic wit and humour and satire - the descriptions of italy during the war were fantastic and the descriptions of the food were just tantalizingly delicious - the saving grace of the book for me. But towards the end of the book, the plot seemed to lose its direction a little bit and became a bit too war-foused and wasn't about the characters enough and this made the ending really drag. If Anthony Capella had kept the book slightly simpler I think the book would have been much, much better.
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Excellent
The story, the writing, the insights - this book is a joy to read and one I will read again. It is difficult to choose, but I would rate this the best of all of Capella's books
Published 1 month ago by Bill Clinton
read Norman Lewis Naples '44
I enjoyed this book, but it did give me a massive sense of deja vu. All the best bits seem to be lifted straight from Norman Lewis's fabulous book about his time in Italy after... Read more
Published 4 months ago by G. Matthews
Really enjoyed this
It probably helped I was reading it whilst I was in Naples, where it is set, and I thought it was good at describing the physical environment and creating the atmosphere. Read more
Published 7 months ago by LeanneH
brilliant
i wouldn't normally read a book about war, but i found this one fascinating and thought-provoking, especially the sequence towards the end of the book which some reviewers found... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Wilf
Bellissimo!!!!!
This is an excellent read! I read 'Food of Love' a few years back and thoroughly enjoyed it also but this is even better! Read more
Published 19 months ago by Loupop
Superb!
I picked this book off my pile to take with me on a holiday to Sorrento and it was the perfect reading companion. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Nicola
Beautiful, poignant and mouthwatering...
A most beautiful book, and Anthony Capellas best, which I initially read shortly after my first trip to Italy. Read more
Published 21 months ago by C. Magowan
An excellent read
This is a great book, one of my favourites, I have bought many copies for friends who I have recommended it to. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Mrs. Margaret Conu
Wish it was all so good
The Wedding Officer is not a book that can easily be categorised. It would seem to fall into the category of historical romance, however, that does not convey the book... Read more
Published on 3 Jun 2009 by BookBliss
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach
`The Wedding Officer' appears at first glance to be a culinary historical romance, along the lines of Joanne Harris' `Chocolat'. Read more
Published on 20 Jan 2009 by Dinah93
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