Rating: 
Summary: A delicious Italian dish
Review: This sun-drenched, garlic-scented novel has a subplot of water -stealing and chicanery and a main story of an Englishwoman who is looking for romance.The main character is Molly, a large, slightly boring woman who becomes involved in real-life mystery and murder and yet is not touched by it, whilst a postcard, a portrait and a strage coupling of a toad and a snake move her deeply and harshly. She is a silly owman yet you like her. Her appalling father is, I think, the kind of man the author John Mortimer would like to be (or maybe is?), an irreverant, literary man with a childlike mischief and a high libedo. A fantastic read on many levels.
Rating:
Summary: A delicious Italian dish
Review: This sun-drenched, garlic-scented novel has a subplot of water -stealing and chicanery and a main story of an Englishwoman who is looking for romance. The main character is Molly, a large, slightly boring woman who becomes involved in real-life mystery and murder and yet is not touched by it, whilst a postcard, a portrait and a strage coupling of a toad and a snake move her deeply and harshly. She is a silly owman yet you like her. Her appalling father is, I think, the kind of man the author John Mortimer would like to be (or maybe is?), an irreverant, literary man with a childlike mischief and a high libedo. A fantastic read on many levels.
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