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Tuscan Living: From the Yorkshire Moors to the Tuscan Hills (No Going Back)
 
 

Tuscan Living: From the Yorkshire Moors to the Tuscan Hills (No Going Back) (Paperback)

by Sarah Fraser (Author)
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  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Cassell Illustrated (1 Aug 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1844031829
  • ISBN-13: 978-1844031825
  • Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 18.6 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 293,203 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Living somewhere as renowned for rain and ridiculous property prices as England, it is hardly difficult to see why Sarah, her husband and their son though becoming olive growers in Italy would be a good idea. Following on from the TV programme showing Sarah's idea becoming reality, this book follows the family's move from the very germ of the idea through finding a house, building up their business and learning about the local community. The strong streak of practicality running through the book urges the reader to think such a move through very carefully; everything from deciding whether you are the right sort of person to tackle such a dramatic change of lifestyle, to finance and even recipes using produce from Sarah's new garden is covered.

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Want to leave the nine-to-five grind and escape to a new life in the sun? Richard, Sarah and Gregory prove that anyone can live their dreams and gain happiness and fulfilment. Featured on the hit Channel Four series "No Going Back", the family gambled their mortgage, savings and personal security when they left Yorkshire for an olive farm in the hills of Tuscany.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Tuscan Living - The Insiders' Practical Guide!, 6 Sep 2003
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Having followed Channel 4's documentary series "No Going Back", I think viewers were really taken with Sarah, Richard and Gregory, who moved from Yorkshire to Tuscany. Whilst the hour-long documentary gave a synopsis of the move and the commencement of a new life in Italy, the follow up series being shown on our screens as I write (August/September 2003) has given a bit more info on the family's trials and tribulations. Being an impressed viewer, I bought the book from Amazon and read it in one day! Although it is not cover to cover written information, there is much more information than has been imparted via the programme, and that information is extremely useful. As well as the glossy pictures, there are basic (and really important) facts and figures, estimates of costs, benefits and drawbacks. This book is extremely practical and has been written in a very accessible, friendly and informative manner. Regardless of whether your planned move is to Italy or another country, it is definitely one for the bookcase. My copy will reside in my kitchen for its beautiful recipes. An excellent read and heart-warming to know that this family is working really hard and is reaping rewards aplenty!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Tuscan Living - Spin off from Channel 4 TV Series 2003, 6 Nov 2003
By Michael Hunter (Edinburgh, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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Tuscan Living by Sarah Fraser may appear to be only another book beginning, "So we fell in love with the ruined farmhouse..." Well, Richard and Sarah did fall in love with their house, but this book is different. Perhaps I am unduly influenced by the fact that I, like them, was born in Yorkshire, and now have a farmhouse in the hills above Pescia.

Richard and Sarah Turnbull gave up their semi-detached house and disco business in Yorkshire to make a new life in the hills above Pescia in Northern Tuscany. They bought a farmhouse in some degree of disrepair, hoping to make a living from its 15 acres. They may appear to have been brave, foolish or seriously misinformed. Our friends with such farms are either retired with pensions, or younger couples with one in full-time employment. Could Richard and Sarah succeed?

Their story has been told in the UK Channel 4 series, No Going Back (featuring several families planning new lives in the sun, mostly disastrously) and A Year in Tuscany (5 programmes broadcast in August-September 2003). The book is certainly a spin-off from these TV programmes, but don't think that if you saw the programmes, you needn't buy the book.

The book isn't a month by month story of their first year in Tuscany, in the style of Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence. It does start with an account of their life in Yorkshire, of how they decided to start a new life in Tuscany and of how they fell in love with this particular house, the Casa del Sole. The subsequent chapters, covering, for example, Renovating in Italy, Managing the Land, The Olives, Holiday Guests, Finances and Bureaucracy, Starting School and Health Care, each describe both their personal experiences in these areas and a checklist of how to do it.

The book is published by Cassell Illustrated, in book size but magazine format - text in columns and attractive typefaces, with photographs on nearly every page.

A few niggles: your essential surveyor, getting your planning permissions and dealing with builders, is not spelled 'geometre' - it is geometra; is Pescia really between Pisa and Lucca? - no wonder your guests were lost; not all Italian men cook, nor are all Italian women slim; and you can't cook a ragù in one hour - it takes at least three!

Will Richard and Sarah succeed? Probably not from their 15 acres alone. They may have been impulsive and slightly ill informed. But the book tells of their careful planning, determination and sheer hard work. And Sarah's writing abilities are probably their best bet. If you buy this book, it will help. You won't regret it. It is a delightful book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Insider Trading, 18 Jul 2003
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A sincere and wonderfully well informed glimpse of what it's really like to live in Tuscany if you're under 40. A genuinely refreshing sorbet after wading through all the turgid, repetitive and shallow post-menopausal tomes written about this geniune heavenly place on earth....
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