One Summer in Venice

De: Nicky Pellegrino

Narrado por: Jane McDowell

Can a city hold the key to happiness?

'This isn't a mid-life crisis OK? For a start I'm not old enough yet to have one of those. I'm calling it a happiness project. I've stolen an entire summer from my life and by the time it's over I plan to leave this place with a list in my hand. The ten things that make me happy, that's all I want to know. How difficult can it be? They may be small things - a perfect cup of coffee, a day without rain - or bigger ones. It's still the beginning so how can I know?'

Addolorata Martinelli knows she should be happy. She has everything she thought she wanted - her own business, a husband, a child. So why does she feel as if something is missing? Then when her restaurant, Little Italy, is slated by a reviewer, she realises that she's lost the one thing she thought she could always count on, her love of food.

So Addolorata heads to Venice for a summer alone, aiming to find the ten things that make her happy. Once she's found them, she'll construct a new life around her ten things, but will they include her life in London?

©2015 Nicky Pellegrino (P)2015 Orion Publishing Group

Best of Peligrino’s books

This was my 6th book of NP and by far the best. The details of the story truly made me feel immersed in Venice. I’ve been there numerous times and her storytelling was not only accurate but magical!

Loved it

I like the twists in the plot. Gave me plenty to think about! I need to start my own list.

Fluffy and shallow

I found this to be very superficial the character to be selfish and self-absorbed especially as a mother and wife, it’s easy to look at other lives and think that they look interesting but to act on it is another. I definitely think there’s better books to spend time on.