The Dangerously Truthful Diary of a Sicilian Housewife

AN ENGLISH WOMAN TAKES ON PARENTHOOD, THE MAFIA AND A SICILIAN MOTHER-IN-LAW, ALL AT ONCE Veronica plans to become a career spinster. But when she flies to Sicily for a friend’s wedding, she accidentally falls in love with one of the groom's three-hundred cousins. She plucks up the courage to leave her family, friends, and job, and move to a fishing village in northern Sicily with a population of about two hundred people several of whom do still have their own teeth. First, her rosary-flailing Mother-in-law, who owns a spaghetti pan big enough to boil Silvio Berlusconi, throws down the gauntlet: Can Veronica live up to the standards of a Sicilian housewife Next, the builder of Veronica's seaside dream villa drops in with a hammer, threatening the house will collapse on her unless she pays him more money “to finish it properly”. Can Veronica solve her problems by pitching one adversary against another Join her on an unpredictable journey of hilarity, reckless driving and dangerously large portions of spaghetti in this almost true travel-novel, for people who need more belly-laughs. AN ENGLISH WOMAN TAKES ON PARENTHOOD, THE MAFIA AND A SICILIAN MOTHER-IN-LAW, ALL AT ONCE Veronica plans to become a career spinster. But when she flies to Sicily for a friend’s wedding, she accidentally falls in love with one of the groom's three-hundred cousins. She plucks up the courage to leave her family, friends, and job, and move to a fishing village in northern Sicily with a population of about two hundred people several of whom do still have their own teeth. First, her rosary-flailing Mother-in-law, who owns a spaghetti pan big enough to boil Silvio Berlusconi, throws down the gauntlet: Can Veronica... Read More

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